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It has been interesting seeing the debate here.

I believe humankind is R rated.  The Bible shows us the level of depravity that the human race has sunk to since the fatal decision made in the Garden and unflinchingly reveals to us our desperate need for a savior to reach into our bleakness and depraved nature and pull us out into His Holiness.

The incidents we reach to with abhorrence as recorded in the OT sadly reflect where we, but for the Grace of God, are headed.  Everything vile atrocity we read in the OT is mirrored in the same world we live in today.  Has murder ceased?  Has dismemberment?  Had incest, rape, etc., etc.  Nope. Today we are even more inventive in ways to break God’s laws and do inhuman cruelty to our fellow man.  Only now, humanity now does it on a massive scale.  We enslave one another, we kill, molest, rape, sodomize, eviscerate, and emasculate one another, and we insult each other under the guise of being social.

The scripture is not R-rated. We are.  The Scripture is revealing and honest, unflinching and bold, convicting and piercing to the bone, sinew, and marrow.  It reveals the darkness that is in us, so that we might wake up to our helpless condition, and cry out for mercy.  For the redemption we need daily. The equipping to walk under the blood-covering that gives us hope and imparts to us a new nature that seeks relationship and fellowship with God.

Want to know what is R rated? We are.  The honesty of the Word should make us sober to that fact, so that we appreciate His covering of righteousness and walk in gratitude for what we have been saved from.