Even when the report is a post on another thread, and even when I am the author, as always, I report and link. You decide. - J :)
From Delphi Adult Christian Forum Thread 102716 - "Molesting Children", Post 125:
{{___ Is there help for child molesters? Do we understand them at all? […] [\] [...] I don't know of any groups that help, [\] [...] How can we minister to these? Many are killed in prison when they are found out. [\] [...] I would like to help these folks but don't know where to start.}}
Thanks for your expression of concern for a group that has had the iniquity of ancestors, including Adam, visited on them in an egregious way.
As one with a great number of mental and emotional shortcomings, leading to membership in several groups that fall short, in special behavioral ways, of the spiritual glory that God requires of those made in His image, I am thankful for your concern.
I have not had time to read the many entries on this thread, nor do I have the special knowledge that you require.
There has been much potentially helpful knowledge developed by authentic science about these specialized clusters of sins, known to the specialists as "disorders".
I believe that those who suffer from "disorders" of whatever kind, have a duty to become experts on their "disorders" by diligent study. The depth and length of study depending upon personal capacity and the extent of future danger.
Family, friends, and fellow adherents of a local assembly have a similar duty to become knowledgeable. It is part of loving one's neighbor.
Parents have a special similar obligation for themselves and for informing their children of the nature of their defects and of the duty of the children to continue the study, particularly while danger exists.
Groups and professional specialists have five shortcomings.
One. They do not have a continuing and complete relation with the complete individual.
Two. Their knowledge is limited by lack of full knowledge of the individual.
Three. Their knowledge is limited in comparison with what is available in the now extraordinarily massive extraordinarily specialized information available to all from the scientific literature and individual posted and written experiences.
Four. Their knowledge is limited to the soul. The science of interest to the born again is spiritual, not soulish knowledge, "pneumatology" not psychology.
Five. The "spiritual" ones, the born again, are "by no one discerned".
The born again behold the glory of the Man on the right side of the throne of God. And are changed thereby into His image, "from glory unto glory".
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 YLT (15) and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned; (16) for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we--we have the mind of Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
