Origins: Your Answer Matters!

Hebrews 12:1
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us…”

What makes something right or wrong? Are things that are sometimes wrong always wrong? Most writers and commentators, even most preachers today, have problems with the question of right and wrong. That seems amazing since only a generation or two ago few people had any problems at all with the issue of right and wrong. About the only act that seems to be universally accepted as wrong today is to claim that there is an absolute standard of morality!

How did things change so fast? That’s not hard to answer. When people accepted that they were made by a Creator, they accepted one important consequence of that fact – the Creator owns us lock, stock and barrel and therefore has every right to hold us accountable for our actions. Many people understood that God was determined to steer us from the wrong and urge us toward the right because the wrong hurts us while the right provides us with a sense of fulfilment. So, life cannot be full when the Creator is not included.

When evolutionists convinced much of the population that this personal Creator was a myth, people began to reason that without a Creator, right and wrong were up for grabs – morality was not absolute. And that is just what the first architects of evolution said would happen if evolution was adopted!

Prayer:
Dear Lord Jesus, it is because You have carried the punishment for my sin on the cross and because You were raised on the third day that I have a new, meaningful life to live. Help me to live it and to have the joy that comes only from You. Amen.

Notes:
Photo: Illustration of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, where ethical decisions are said to be made. Courtesy of Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.