We're told that 40% of births are to unmarried women. "Cohabitation" of unmarried men and women is becoming a quaint term to describe what is now a fully accepted practice, and is probably viewed by many as a judgmental term as well. Speaking publicly against behaviors condemned by society in Beaver's day is now called "hate speech", and some news pundits seemed shocked that anyone could still be opposed to marriage rights for all citizens.
For those who still believe God spoke once on these and other subjects of moral behavior, this "new morality" may be new to us as a society, but hardly new for the world as a whole. Moral decadence in respect to God's Word is as old as humanity, and the results will be the same as ever. And that result is not to be measured in human acceptance or judgment, not in polls or commentary. The result is summed up in Romans 6:23: "The wages of sin is death."
What death, they might say? Indeed, the first tempter posed the same challenge, when he told the woman he was about to deceive, "You shall surely not die!" Sure, she didn't drop over dead, and neither do people who reject God's "old" morality for an updated version. But surely their souls die in respect to all that God created them to experience through living by His Word. And the deadness of the spirit, in which all humans are born, and in which they will persist until they are born again by the Spirit of God, cannot be undone so easily as the moral codes of a nation.
Perhaps this modern morality has changed our society's view of acceptable behaviors, but the result will be the same as always.
