Combating The Ways of the World

The ways of the world. Think about it. The ways of the world. What does the world deem acceptable? Homosexuality, being promiscuous, making everything all about me. Of course, there are others. "It's okay for you to curse." "Let's save those trees, but those African children who are starving? we can leave them be." "It's okay to bully him; he doesn't care." "She won't know I said this about her, so it's okay." And people just excuse it. "No one's being hurt." "He's too popular; someone has to take him down a notch." "I can't do anything to help them anyway, I'm not important enough." One of the saddest excuses ever for some of these is "God's too busy to care." or "God won't notice." There is no excuse for these kinds of things, and everyone does them. That's right; everyone. Even me.
 I have a classmate who is very "of the world." She's bisexual and atheist, although she's Jewish as well. She likes to argue with me about what is true. The other day, we had an argument about gay marriage. I'm against it because of what it says in the Bible. She's for it. Her argument: "It's been scientifically proven that gayness is a chemical imbalance in the brain. How can you make that illegal?" My response: "I don't know how or why, and I don't claim to. I just know what I believe and I know that the Bible is truth." Her argument: "But it says that being gay is a sin in the old testament, and it says that eating shrimp is a sin there too, but you eat shrimp, don't you?" My response: "It does, but it says that being gay is a sin in the New Testament, too. But it doesn't say that about shrimp, does it?" Her arguments go on, but that's all I've got. I never know how to respond to what she says. It's frustrating. The night of that discussion, though, I talked to one of my best friends, the one who agrees with me on being gay as a sin. She reminded me that there's no such thing as beating this particular girl in an argument, because even if you do have a better argument, she'll think she's won. That was really encouraging to me, even though I was still upset that I didn't know what to say. But maybe next time I will have a good response. Here's hoping! (or praying)