AND I wonder how much of this might fit Mark Driscoll… In my opinion, it appears that a good proportion of it does. I think I’ll go to the site where you got this and see if they’ll let me post it too. WOW!

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Lets assume what you say is true.

Are you seriously going to tell me that a true man of God is okay in the Lord’s eyes to do such a thing?

It seems to me the ones that say YES are the ones that need to allow their brains to develop a bit more. Please show scripture that makes statutory rape, or lack of brain development an OKAY excuse please.

Get with the program even ‘good’ people have to pay for their sins! Making excuses for them is plain denial.

Yes, a 14 yr old knows right from wrong, and since you were ignorant enough to touch on the subject about brain development when I have already done so just furthers our point we have been making about the girls being too young to make that type of decision. Since apparently you do not understand what you are blabbing I will clarify this for you also.
Just because teenagers may be physically mature, they do not grasp the consequences or weigh information the same way as adults do. To define both teenager and adult; a teenager is young person aged 13 to 19: a young person between the ages of 13 and 19. An adult is somebody who has reached the age of legal majority, generally 18 years of age in the United States. Yes, even though an 18 yr old and 19 are still considered teenagers they are of legal majority. So therefore I am also going to clarify what a CHILD is; somebody under a legally specified age who is considered not to be legally responsible for his or her actions

So we are mistaken to think that although somebody looks physically mature, we assume their brain is also mature when in reality part of the brain that is helping organization, planning and strategizing is not done developing A teenagers brain continues to change into the early 20’s with the frontal lobes, responsible for reasoning and problem solving, developing last.

It seems tome that you are obviously related to this scum, your statements are so way off base and how dare you even have the nerve to actually verbalize them! To put it in VERY clear plain English at grade school level for people like you, it does no matter if these 14 and 15 yr old girls fell butt naked from the sky onto Joshua’s lap with there legs spread open as he had an erection. IT IS STATUTORY RAPE! Plain and simple, these girls were not of legal age to consent, period!!!

Tell me how there parents did not raise them right? You act as if you know who there parents/ families on a personal bases. How teenagers behave outside the boundaries and supervision of there parents does NOT reflect their parents parentage at all.

Q, since you are so opinionated about it being the fault of the parents and children. I’d like to know your honest opinion about this….When I was about 14 my pastors son was a creep. He had no care in the world about age differences between himself and the girls he tried putting the moves on. He was at least in his mid 20’s and he would walk right up against your body pressing his against yours, touching your body in anyway he could and to top it off his wife was pregnant with their first child. (This one PRIME example of this creep was with the young women. As long as the girls had breasts and a womanly shape he was ALL over them.) To this day, over 26 years later he is still the same, however, he still only does this with the very young girls with beautiful figures. So since this creep does this will his son be the same way, because if what you say is true, it’s all about the parents right?

It seems to me that the ONLY psychological problems here belongs with Joshua for having sex with girls that are at least 10 yrs younger than him that are under the legal age to give consent! As well as with his family continuing to deny, deny, deny, when there are 5 girls in different states that he has done this to!

What seems “‘odd’ to the rest of the world” is how people actually defend this grown adult MINISTER and blame the teenage victims. I think we should all pray for these types of people because “…maybe they just need help….everyone is not perfect.”

Decieved, you are completely right “ignorance ought to be painful“ for the idiots that blame the victims.., their families, and next they will even blame the family dog!