Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
There are many things in this text, nearly all of them “politically incorrect”. Oh yes, one more i saw a couple of days previous to this one:
Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Wouldn’t this apply to our not learning the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu etc literature and customs and ways in order to be “culturally sensitive”? Sure, i understand very well, for example, that it is required in some societies to take off your shoes before entering the house, or for women and men to sit on opposite sides of the church – that is not what i’m talking about. I’m talking about the deliberate formation by our Seventh-day Adventist church of “Buddhist Study Center”s (since renamed) and “Adventist/Muslim Relations” people advocating studying the Qur’an.