Please understand that I don't condemn anyone, for the Bible condemns all of us as guilty, dirty, rotten, hell-deserving sinners. My salvation solely rests in Christ's righteousness, because of the precious blood that He gave for our sins. My intention is not to be unkind; but rather, to take a Biblical stand for God.
Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner, says "I'm a pretty moral guy!"
In
a
2004 Chicago
Sun-Times interview by Cathleen Falsani, Hugh Hefner
stated ...
"Sin is a religious term for immoral behavior, but it's a religious term," Hefner says, adding that his definition of sin is "things that are hurtful to people" ... "I believe in the creation, and therefore I believe there has to be a creator of some kind, and that is my God.
I do not believe in a biblical God, not in the sense that he doesn't exist, it's just that I know rationally that man created the Bible and that we invented our perception of what we do not know."
Mr. Hefner openly states that he does NOT believe in the God of the Bible. Yet, he thinks he's “a pretty moral guy.” If morals do not come from the Word of God, then prey tell me, where do they come from? Who sets the benchmark?
Since the Bible condemns pornography (Matthew 5:28), Hugh Hefner has decided that he doesn't believe the Bible. He says he believes in God, and creation; but not the God of the Bible Who condemns adultery and whore-mongering.
Hebrews 13:4 WARNS, "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
Philippians 3:18-19, "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things."
When asked whether or not he had ever sinned, Hefner replied...
"Oh, sure, but I haven’t pursued very much immoral behavior. I’m a pretty moral guy. Now, it's morality as I perceive it. Morality is what is perceived as good for people"
SOURCE: 2004 Chicago Sun-Times interview
Hugh Hefner's life has been spent indulging in sinful sex orgies and fornication; yet, Hugh says, "I haven’t pursued very much immoral behavior." Perhaps it's because of the immoral ministers and professed Christians like Faith Hill, who support Playboy magazine, that Mr. Hefner doesn't see the wickedness of his morally reprehensible Playboy.
As Christians, we are not supposed to condemn
anyone, for the Bible condemns all humanity as being hell-deserving sinners;
however, we are instructed in Ephesians 5:11 to take a Biblical stand
against those who attempt to publicly justify and parade wickedness.
Playboy Offers Discount for Ministers
America is a land infested with sinister ministers...
Back in the 1960s, when Hefner and Playboy Enterprises were involved with the civil rights movement and Playboy was in its heyday, he met an Episcopal priest and author named Malcolm Boyd. The two men have remained close friends for more than 40 years.
At the time, Hefner spent time with various clergymen, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, with whom he could knock around his ideas about theology and morality. In fact, Hefner says, for a time Playboy magazine offered a special discount subscription rate for ministers.
SOURCE: 2004 Chicago Sun-Times interview
Can you imagine... ministers subscribing to Playboy magazine? Jesse Jackson was featured in Playboy magazine in 1969. The "reverend," Martin Luther King Jr., was featured in a 1965 Playboy magazine interview.
There's nothing moral about Hugh Hefner's pornography. His life's work was building an empire of sleaze, sexual perversion and lasciviousness. By Hefner's own admission, he denies the God of the Bible. I say this with great sadness, for the Lord is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2nd Peter 3:9).
"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." —2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9
