Re-Posted from "Meditations of a Charismatic Calvinist Who Does Not Speak in Tongues"
One of the reasons that we as a society have moved from a
black-and-white view of morality to the idea that morality is various
shades of gray is the reliance on human beings as the standards of good
and evil. But human beings are sinners (Romans 3:23; Jeremiah 17:9;
Isaiah 64:6) and therefore cannot perfectly reflect real good. But they
are also not perfectly evil, but still reflect some of the original
moral character God created them with (Romans 2:14,15; James 1:17;
Ecclesiastes 7:29). This means there is a danger for those who do hold
to a black-and-white view of morality and who are in search of real good
and real evil to glorify or vilify certain individuals or groups beyond
what is justified by the circumstances. Now God is the source and
standard for real good (Psalms 25:8; Mark 10:18; Nahum 1:7). Evil cannot
have a source in the same sense because evil is a corruption of and a
rebellion against good. But the chief instigators of evil in our world
are in the spiritual realm (2 Corinthians 4:3,4; Hebrews 2:14,15;
Ephesians 2:1,2), and they are the ones we battle (Ephesians 6:10-13; 1
Peter 5:8,9; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6). Therefore, we can put human beings
in perspective, for they are all knowingly or unknowingly serving
something beyond themselves. We need to look elsewhere to find the real
standard and the real enemy. And we need to deal with other human beings
in the light of those facts.
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