The United States
Constitution is not the Word of God. It
is a document created and maintained by human beings. It has become the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, the tree God told Adam not to eat from. R.C. Sprowl said it well; “This country gives
people rights, including the right to be wrong.
God does not give us that right.”
God’s laws are not the same as man’s laws and visa versa. God’s laws are eternal; man’s laws are
temporary and change with the times.
I remember when I
worked at Montgomery County Association for Retarded Citizens back in the early
70”s; the head psychologist there told me that if you say something is true and
acceptable over and over again, eventually in the minds of people it will
become true and acceptable. Looking at
the state of the world and the state of morality today, I would have to say she
was right about the acceptable part and for most people the true part.
When the concept
of Absolute Truth is rejected and truth becomes relative, then there is no
standard to hold things accountable to and chaos will emerge. “Where there is not prophetic vision the
people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law” (Proverbs
29:18)
When Absolute
Truth is rejected, God is rejected; when God is rejected Absolute Love is
rejected. Love becomes diminished to the
realm of feelings rather than right action.
We don’t want people to feel bad so we won’t correct them when they are
wrong, and let them do whatever makes them feel good. Or the opposite side of the coin is that we
are harsh in our judgment and condemning in our correction. Neither one is right action.
Absolute Love
desires what is truly best for a person’s soul, regardless of feelings, and
corrects in a loving way so that the change in behavior is invited not
indoctrinated.
God is both
Absolute Truth and Absolute Love; both are a standard to live by and a pure way
of adjusting and maintaining that standard.
When we reject God we lose pure Truth and pure Love, replacing it with
human truth and love which are false, faulty, and unsustainable.
“My people have committed two evils;
They have forsaken me
The fountain of living waters,
And hewed out cisterns for themselves,
Broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
Jeremiah 2:13
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