Exaggerations and cover-ups are lies. Our culture lives more by their desired imagination than by rational and logical reasoning. When a culture has gone the route of following "feelings" above reasoning, we have lost the culture.
Isaiah 1:18
"18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
One cannot admit their sin if they are fantasizing all the time to feel good. One cannot admit their sin when feeling good takes priority over truth.
Often truth will make us feel bad when we are convicted of the violation of it, this is good!
Conviction and bad feelings over sin are good. They lead a non-believer to repentance and a born again believer to confession to be cleansed.
When all guilt is removed from the culture through false justification of that sin then there is no possibility of reasoning with the one who loves their sin and lies.
James 1:2-8
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
Removing all discomfort from a culture produces far more problems than it will ever solve.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat."
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