Child abuse in religious settings

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

At no place in Bible does God mention the sin of child abuse.  Why?  I believe this is because all humans know this is evil.  I believe the Holy Spirit put it in all humans that child abuse is a great evil.  Thus if we resist the Holy Spirit it would be an unpardonable sin, a sin against the Holy Spirit.  I believe this is what we see in child abuse in the Catholic church, an unpardonable sin among those men they call "priests".

 

Mt. 12:31  Jesus says:  Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

 

One thing I do know, we must judge the church (not the world).  I Cor. 5:11

 

The people in the churches often want to judge the world but the apostle Paul explains this to us in I Cor. 5 that we must judge the church.

 

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without (without the church)? do not ye judge them that are within? (You are to judge within, within the church) But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

Are there different levels of sin?  Yes.  Look at the following scriptures:

 

I Cor. 6:18   Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

 

Mt. 23:14  Jesus says  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

 

How can any group calling itself a church try to cover up child abuse?

 

And why is child abuse so rampant in the Catholic church?

 

They set up a rule forbidding their "priests" to marry, but that rule is opposite from the rules concerning ministers as spoken by the apostle Paul in the Bible, by doing this the Catholics set up a natural haven for perverts. 

 

If our foundation is anything but the Bible, we set ourselves up for a great fall.

 

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