How do sinful social structures weaken your moral fiber?

Answer 1

According to a Bible view, it's very simple: Jehovah God (the God of The Bible) has outlined his righteous requirements for mankind in his word The Holy Bible.

These requirements include moral things like: honesty, truthfulness, chasteness, etc. Each of those main categories included things like God's view of: stealing, lies, deceit, selfishness, sexual morality, etc.

Any social conduct; or social structures, that vary from what God requires, will weaken those who wish to remain pure and clean, morally, spiritually, and even physically. The Bible states that 'bad associations' will spoil our good habits.

One prophet in The Bible uses the illustration that if you put something bad, like a rotten apple, in a barrel; the whole barrel will turn bad because of the one rotten apple; -- But the opposite is not identical: if you place a good apple in a barrel of bad apples, the good apple will not help the bad apples to recover. It just doesn't work that way with morals. Therefore a Christian needs to watch his association; (and who his children associate with) very closely; otherwise they will be infected.

Most societies contain many religions with more or less conflict among them. When the society as a whole creates a structure that is not in alignment with the beliefs of one of the groups, it appears acceptable to the young members of that group. They may decide to follow the ways of the social structure to the point of breaking moral ties to their family's traditional religion. This would be termed a "weakening of their moral fiber" by their religious group. Traditional moral strictures are based on a variety of sources such as the Koran and Bible. They contain the teachings of the wise people in their history and try to teach ways for people to get along with each other. There are good reasons for most if not all of the ideas about morality found in traditional religions. There are also terrible ideas in some traditional moral structures. Hopefully, a society's contains citizens wise enough and with the political power to institutionalize only the best moral structures into their society.EVERY SOUL IS A MIRROR;SO SINS ARE REFLECTED!