Moabite women are out seducing LCG young men

The Living Church of God has to almost annually warn its members, particularly young women and men, on modest clothing and acting modestly. This year is no exception. They have two new articles up for both young women and young men.

Young Women and Modesty
Young Men and Modesty

The young men's article is fascinating.

Teenage boys and young men who work out and take their shirts off are immodest.

First, it is also very possible for men to be immodest. Some men can focus so much on working out that it seems they idolize their bodies. While exercise and activity have great benefits for our physical and mental health, some men clearly work out primarily to look good. This is usually revealed in how they act outside the gym. Have you ever known a guy who seems to be looking for every opportunity to take his shirt off, as if he’s Chris Hemsworth? That guy is clearly not just after health benefits. He wants to display his body—a blatantly immodest act. Working out can certainly help men look better, but that does not give us an excuse to be immodest about it.

Then the article IMMEDIATELY makes an abrupt jump on to loose Moabite women out to seduce LCG's men. Apparently, LCG men CANNOT control themselves.

Do you let a woman’s dress determine your thoughts? Yes, young ladies have specific verses in the Bible to follow, and it goes without saying that women who take the Bible seriously will take those verses seriously. But what about those women who do not? What is the likelihood that you will come across women dressed immodestly at the beach, the gym, or even Walmart? Pretty high. And if they are dressed immodestly, does that excuse your thoughts? 

 

Numbers 25 gives us a strong warning, telling of how the women of Moab seduced Israelite men. Both the worldly women and the Israelite men sinned by committing sexual immorality and idolatry—so, both groups were punished. The Israelite men suffered a devastating plague, while Israel later wiped out their seducers (Numbers 31). The Israelite men were not spared because the Moabite women were immodest—they were expected to know better and avoid sin, regardless of how the world around them acted.

The mere fact that these men look at women apparently sends them into immediate adultery:

Galatians 5:22–23 lists “self-control” as one of the fruits of God’s Spirit. Men must learn to control their thoughts (2 Corinthians 10:5) regardless of their circumstances—and we should not think we can hide our own sins behind someone else’s. When Jesus told His followers to not even look at a woman to lust over her (Matthew 5:28), He did not give any kind of loophole based on how she was dressed. If you lust after a woman, you are committing adultery. Whatever she is wearing does not excuse you.

Quoting these verses sure never seems to stop some in LCG's ministry from committing adultery, but that's another topic for another time. 

LCG men are warned about those crafty seductive Moabite women trolling them:

For young men in God’s Church today, there are “Moabite women” aplenty. And pornography is a horrendous sin that can easily become addictive for those who choose to go after these modern “Moabite women.” Our society encourages young women to sexualize themselves and dress immodestly. Even in God’s Church, we must often revisit the concept of modesty, as society puts so many pressures on young women. But you, young men, are under just as many sinful pressures to think of young women as sexual objects rather than as sisters in Christ. From these pressures, the Bible exhorts you to flee (1 Corinthians 6:18).

LCG men need to stop looking at LCG women as hookers and temptresses. Women in the LCG are there to SERVE them but only if they dress modestly. It is not the men's fault they can't control their animal instincts. LCG  women need to tone it down a lot! After all, it's always the women in the COG that are the cause of men going astray.

Your sisters in Christ can serve you, young men, by dressing modestly—but you can serve them by controlling your thoughts, words, and actions toward them. Do you treat them like sisters in Christ or like Moabite women? Do you dare sin by asking them for sexual pictures? Who would ask their sisters for such things? If you have committed this sin, you need to seek forgiveness from God and from the women you have wronged.

LCG men need to immediately go to the women they objectified and repent of thinking of them as Moabite seductresses. Bad women! I sinned because of YOU!

LCG men need to be constantly on the lookout for loose women so that they do not develop a debased mindset.

So, young men, do not think that modesty is only for the ladies to worry about. You, too, must avoid becoming vain about your appearance. And you must not shrug off your need to grow in self-control by blaming women for your lack of character. Even when a man meets an immodest woman, he has no excuse for developing a debased mindset. Let us look instead to the instructions and examples within Scripture, which allow us to have fulfilling relationships with all women as their brothers in Christ.

Why is it that Church of God leaders and ministers think so little of their members that they need to constantly keep telling them they are debased, seductive, and willing sinners? When will members ever be given credit for doing anything right?