THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH AND THE LASCIVIOUSNESS IN THE SECULARIZED SOCIETY Cover Image

TÂNĂRUL CREŞTIN ŞI PATIMA DESFRÂNĂRII ÎN SOCIETATEA SECULARIZATĂ
THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH AND THE LASCIVIOUSNESS IN THE SECULARIZED SOCIETY

Author(s): Nicolae Aloman
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: young;lasciviousness;sexuality;marriage;sacraments;

Summary/Abstract: In the modern society the young person who wants to preserve his or her chastity and live a moral life according to God’s will is going to find this very difficult to achieve. This mission becomes even more challenging as we notice that the modern world has already reached unprecedented levels of moral corruption. Today, when the Christian world is struggling, when modernism with its open invitation to unlimited material comfort invades every corner of our life, when cohabitation, infidelity and sexual perversions suffocate more and more young people and sensuality is highly preferred over the purity of the true love, the teachings of the Holy Gospels and those of the Holy Fathers become the safest support for the young person who wants to live an authentic moral life in a secularized society. At the same time God, Who is forgiving and merciful, offers the young person who is possessed by lasciviousness the opportunity to correct him or herself and, through the works of the Holy Sacraments, provides them with additional means to straighten out many things in society and live a life according to God's precepts. The pure love is the one that extends the life of Christ into our earthly life, for in each and every pure body there is a holy temple of God, meaning that pure young person becomes the altar where Christ is willing to bring Himself as a pleasing offering to God the Father.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 53-74
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian