What's Wrong with Prostitution?

Today, I watched an episode of COPS, something I haven't done in awhile. In the episode that I watched, the officer was arresting a women who was charged with "manifestation of prostitution." He apoke to the viewers matter-of-factly that prostitution was wrong. Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not condoning prostitution, not at all. But it made me wonder: How do people without a bilical world-view say that prostitution is wrong? The answer is: they can't. Nothing tells us whether prostituion is wrong or right, in a naturalistic world-view anyway. I have spoken with quite a few people concerning this issue and the answer I have heard the most is that society determines for their time what is right and wrong. This answer does not suffice for a number of reasons, and I will try to post why it is not in the near future Lord-willing.

Thinking about how prostitution is deemed immoral in our society revealed to me some sad hypocrisy in our media and culture. When they tout tolerance and are fighting for homosexual rights, they pronounce judgment on the prostitute and scorn the polygamist. How do they draw these lines of right and wrong? If they are truly as tolerant as they claim and look upon the log in their own eye before blaming the Evangelical community for bigotry, they will see that they fail miserably in keeping with their own world-view. They should be fighting for prostitution rights alongside their pro-choice and homosexual rights campaigns. This is a reasonable conclusion to a naturalistic world-view.

Those of us with biblical world-view must continue to remind ourselves that right and wrong comes from the infallible God. He is the final authority. We must be carefuly that we do not fall into our own hypocrisy: knowing the truth while not living it. As we see the sad state of our culture, let us go to the Lord of compassion and ask Him to send workers into the harvest. Let us pray, "Your Kingdom come!"