Culture
Watch: Love Has Its Limits
Last month, a man from Coatesville, Indiana was
arrested and held in jail because of his 11-year incestuous relationship
with his daughter, now 25 years old.
The interesting factor in this story is not the sin, but the
justification for it. As the 43-year old father was questioned he said,
“We knew it was wrong but we couldn’t argue the feelings that
transpired.”
Not only were feelings his justification for the sin, but the daughter
also justifies her incest with the same logic. She says, “He’s the best
thing that ever happened to me. That’s just how I feel.”
Many have justified premarital sex, adultery and homosexuality on the
basis of love or “feelings.” Can we also justify incest? Where is the
line drawn?
God’s Word is clear, even if man is not. Jesus says, “...a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh...therefore what God has joined together, let not man
separate” (Matthew 19:5,6).
God didn’t say “leave father and be joined to father” did He?
July 2005