With rare exception, when a thinker focuses mentally on a single subject, that subject will eventually manifest itself in physical action. Second Life is no exception. Sexual predators fantasize, sometimes for years, extensively about raping females before doing the act. The same is true of serial killers. They are known to daydream about killing people, often many people, before the first killing takes place. The same will hold true in Second Life. Second lifers joke about sex sins of all kinds that take place in their virtual world. Adultery, homosexuality are sins even if practiced in the virtual world and will result in death–the wages of sin. The Lord spoke to this issue through the Apostle James, “but every man is tempted when he succumbs to his own lust (thoughts) and enticed. Then when lust has conceived it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is completed, brings forth death” (Jam. 1:14,15). Human lust is nothing to treat frivolously. All sin begins in the mind. When we think on something long enough, physical action is sure to follow.
Jesus told us that sins of the mind are still sins when He stated, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time. ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” (Mat. 5:27,28). Let us not be so naïve as to believe that S.L. residents will not eventually begin to play out their darkest desires in the real world.
There is indeed a new world coming in the near future. It will be a wonderful world in which Jesus Christ will be the supreme ruler over mankind in what is Biblically known as the Kingdom of God on Earth. Let us allow the Lord cleanse us from all sin, then let us keep ourselves spiritually clean so that we can enter that kingdom and rule and reign with Him forever. L.J.
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