Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Bait Car

Have you ever seen the show Bait Car? It's kind of cool, but also kind of boring. It reminds me a little bit of Deadliest Catch. The same thing happens every single episode, but somehow I can't look away. Speaking of which, Jess and I have started watching the show Whale Wars and we keep saying, "maybe this will be the episode where something happens..." but it never does (sorry, squirrel). Anyway, on this show Bait Car the police put out a car, leave the keys in it or leave it running, then wait for someone to come along and steal it. They have a pretty sweet setup because after the car is stolen they can remotely shut the car down to catch the perps (yes, I just wanted to say "perps").

There is a lot of debate over whether the whole bait car program is even ethical. Some people say that it is a form of entrapment. By putting the car out there, the police force encourages someone to steal a car that they would not have otherwise stolen. AKA: the theft of the car is the police departments fault.

Others say that it is completely ethical because if the person would steal this car, they would certainly steal another. AKA: the theft of the car is the thief's fault.

So which one is right?

At small group Tuesday night we had a thought... the tree God put in the Garden of Eden is the original bait car! Some people look at that tree and say, "God entrapped us! He put that tree there to cause us to sin when He could have left it out and prevented the first sin. It's God's fault." I am going to have to strongly disagree with this one. The tree didn't entrap us, the tree revealed our character. God does not tempt us, but He does allow us the free will to fall into temptation. It is our choice, it is always our choice.

When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. -James 1:13-15

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)