Moral Truths (final article)

What makes us continue to search for the truths in life? Even those who do not have an understanding of who God is, or a belief in His son our Savior Jesus Christ will know deep in their hearts what is right and wrong. We continue to search for that which is right. It is said that we all have a God shaped hole in our hearts. We attempt to fill that hole with many things and yet we are always left longing. It is this same way that we continue to search for the truths in life, it is in this way that we keep coming back to what is right. It is in this way that we as nations of this world can’t avoid the basic tenants of the Ten Commandments when we are drafting the laws of the land, it is because God has placed them in our hearts, we were hard-wired with them from before birth and they are inescapable. Romans 1:19-20 tells us, “Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities- His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that we are without excuse.” God has made it clear to us what His intentions are; man in turning away from what God has made clear will be destroyed.

The things that seem to be most prevalent in our societal discussion in the “progressive church” these days, the things that we try to pass off as acceptable based on a false sense of inclusiveness are in fact unacceptable in God’s eyes. This term “progressive” is not only disturbing it is laughable. What is more progressive than God? Is there a way that God’s word can be improved upon? The truth of the matter is, the less we have to rely on God for our laws and moral standards the more we can invent our own, and this makes us accountable to each other and not to God. As writer Jonathan Glover tells us, “we can re-create morality to suit ourselves”. The very term, re-creation leads us to believe that we are tinkering with something God has already put in place, for God is the only one who can create ex nihilo (from nothing). The fallacy of this principle, of course, is that we never escape the judgment of God and it is to His moral standards that we will be held accountable.

The bottom line is that certain moral truths are common to all people. We are bound by these truths, which were created by God simply because we are also His creation. When we go awry of these truths we wander down a path of destruction. God has made known to everyone what His truths are and has provided to us the Holy Spirit in order to reveal them to us. We are judged by the standard that was given to us by our creator, to ignore that fact will certainly lead to doom.