Since the adoption of the absurd proposition that there are no absolutes and that truth is relative – (try arguing with your bank manager that you really are not in the red because that is HIS truth, not yours; or the judge that the stop sign you ignored was the cops truth, not your truth), – since that lie became the standard operating principle of society, morality has become meaningless. For example, sexual predators get elected into high office, corruption is standard practice, liars cannot be held accountable and the human race has started the descent into complete anarchy.
The Bible nails it! Eugene Petersen (The Message) paraphrases Romans 1 in such a way that the 2000 year insight is like a polar vortex that reaches through the centuries:
But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. … What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. …
… So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.” It wasn’t long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives.
Sigh, The most frightening thing is that in many “christian” quarters this behavior is lauded and mimicked. Lord have mercy.
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