There are two basic views on the origin on morals. One view is that morals are autonomous. This view is held by evolutionists. They believe that morals evolved as people and society evolved. Morals are a way, they say for people to get along and behave in groups. Morals, therefore, change as society changes. People can also propose changes to morals and campaign for those changes. Entertainment and writings can push the envelope of morals and, over time, change them. Morals are not based on anything, so they are flexible.
The other view is that morals are revealed. The biblical view is that God, the creator of everything, has a proposal on how the created order should behave. For humans, God gave the law. The law is a set of rules that govern people’s behavior. For the first people, there was one rule or one law. Adam and Eve failed and sin entered the world. God wants to limit our sin, so he gave rules, called the law. From the law, moral and ethical behavior emerged.
Of course, the law was broken at every turn so God sent his Son to die for our sins. For those who accept Jesus Christ, they receive the Holy Spirit. God’s law is written on the heart of Christians.
Christians now have a clear picture of what moral behavior is. It is a combination of the law and the example of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Christians, for example, do not lie. It would be immoral to lie because God does not lie and Christ is all about truth. With revealed or transcendent morals, morals do not change based on the society, culture or time. Therefore, it was immoral and a sin for people to lie in the first century AD and it is a sin and immoral to lie today. The culture cannot push the envelope of transcendent morals because they are not based on anything we do or believe.
When sinful people say that the patriarchal rules of marriage and truth and respect no longer matter, that they are old fashioned and out dated, then an immoral society emerges. People do what is right in their own eyes and nothing has value anymore. Our American society is in this state. Ever since the 60s, rules and morals and God’s way of doing things has been mocked. As a result, sexual immorality, honesty, respect for all people and truth has all but disappeared. As a result, those with power who are honored by society are shown to be the lecherous immoral detached sinners they really are. Morals without a spiritual base cannot stand. Morals without God will be cast away and people will make sinful fools of themselves, disgusting everyone who mocked God and his moral standard. I am not surprised by what is happening on the news today with all the sexual deviants being exposed. It was expected. Life without God will be exposed by God.
The other view is that morals are revealed. The biblical view is that God, the creator of everything, has a proposal on how the created order should behave. For humans, God gave the law. The law is a set of rules that govern people’s behavior. For the first people, there was one rule or one law. Adam and Eve failed and sin entered the world. God wants to limit our sin, so he gave rules, called the law. From the law, moral and ethical behavior emerged.Of course, the law was broken at every turn so God sent his Son to die for our sins. For those who accept Jesus Christ, they receive the Holy Spirit. God’s law is written on the heart of Christians.
Christians now have a clear picture of what moral behavior is. It is a combination of the law and the example of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Christians, for example, do not lie. It would be immoral to lie because God does not lie and Christ is all about truth. With revealed or transcendent morals, morals do not change based on the society, culture or time. Therefore, it was immoral and a sin for people to lie in the first century AD and it is a sin and immoral to lie today. The culture cannot push the envelope of transcendent morals because they are not based on anything we do or believe.
When sinful people say that the patriarchal rules of marriage and truth and respect no longer matter, that they are old fashioned and out dated, then an immoral society emerges. People do what is right in their own eyes and nothing has value anymore. Our American society is in this state. Ever since the 60s, rules and morals and God’s way of doing things has been mocked. As a result, sexual immorality, honesty, respect for all people and truth has all but disappeared. As a result, those with power who are honored by society are shown to be the lecherous immoral detached sinners they really are. Morals without a spiritual base cannot stand. Morals without God will be cast away and people will make sinful fools of themselves, disgusting everyone who mocked God and his moral standard. I am not surprised by what is happening on the news today with all the sexual deviants being exposed. It was expected. Life without God will be exposed by God.
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