Friday, July 27, 2012
Hotels exchanging Bible for explicit books
Hotel owner Denby removes the Bible and replaces it with an explicit romance novel here is why?
Denby writes on his blog, Slow Life: "Tonight millions of women will be curling up in bed with a good book and you can bet your life it won't be the Bible. More likely than not it will be 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I haven't read the book yet -- I'm not in the target audience -- but I'm told it's a ripping good yarn and everyone who's in the target audience loves it. This made me wonder about the sense of providing a book, the Gideon Bible which no-one reads, and many dislike, in the bedside cabinet of our hotel bedrooms, instead of a book which everyone wants to read, such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
"In this secular age it seems distinctly odd that anyone would expect to find a religious book in a hotel bedroom."
The Bible he states "no one reads and many dislike". I would like to argue with him, but I can't many christians and non-christians alike don't read it and many from either spectrum don't like it. Hate to admit it, but its true. I've read stories of homosexual actors that when they stay in hotel rooms rip pages out that are agains homosexuality so others won't read them.
I believe the reason for this is because the Bible is God's word that tells us how to live our lives and what is acceptable( obedient to the Lord) and what is not( difining Sin) and people want to do what they want to do and ignore thus sayeth the Lord. It's easier to do this when it is not in a place of constant reminder. What people would rather have is something or someone telling them their behavior is acceptable, even when it is not. Popular opinion so to speak.... This does not work for the God of the Bible. I think this verse sums it up.
1Cor 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God! I believe this applies to not only preaching the cross, but reading about the cross. The Word of God is foolish to those that are perishing and for those that are saved it is the power of God (because it is His Words)
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