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portrayal of perpetrators of socio-pathic, or immoral behavior as victims inevitably made its way
over into the judicial system. It is common for a defense lawyer to call forth some “expert”
witness who will testify that a person committed a crime because they were abused as a child,
were raised in poverty, were subjected to gang influences, or deprived of acceptable educational
experiences and opportunities to succeed in society. The reason that lawyers portray the clients
they are defending as victims of their past experiences is to lessen their culpability in the eyes of
a judge or jury. The blame is shifted away from the criminal onto someone else, such as an
abusive parent, or upon society itself. In essence, the perpetrator is re-cast as a victim who
deserves sympathy rather than punishment.

Modern psychiatry, whether intentionally or not, accomplishes this absolution of guilt when it
treats sinful men and women as if their problems are the result of their past experiences.
Psychiatric counseling dulls the voice of conscience within the individual, effectively removing
the chief restraint upon mankind against sinful, selfish, and immoral behavior.

This portrayal of people who commit crimes against humanity, or sins against God, as victims of
their past experiences, is contrary to the manner in which Yahweh relates to man. The Bible does
not present man as a victim to be pitied, but rather as a transgressor who needs to accept
responsibility for his actions. The church, embracing the erroneous philosophy of the world, has
begun to treat sinners as victims of their environment and past experiences. This misguided
sympathy becomes a stumbling block. Even as the lawyer seeks to diminish the perception of his
client as evil by painting him as a victim of his past experiences, the church is diminishing
people’s recognition of the fact that they are sinners as they adopt the practices of modern
counseling and psychiatry.

How will people repent of their sins if the church treats them as victims instead of sinners? At
the same time the Spirit of Christ is “convicting the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment,”
the church is mollifying sinners by refusing to call sin what it really is. People of God, do not be
deceived. The homosexual needs to understand that they are responsible for their choices and
actions before the eyes of God. Do not be swayed by the propaganda of the medical profession,
the government, and the media. Yahweh gave mankind His holy Law that they might recognize
themselves as sinners.

Romans 7:12-13
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is
good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death
in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly
sinful.

I Timothy 1:8-10
But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made
for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for
the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral
men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to
sound teaching...