Does Morality Change?

How do we know what is right and what is wrong, what is okay and what is not?

Is it at the whim of the times?

Is it what is popular?

Is it what once was considered sin, but now has become acceptable in modern times?

Is it determined by a legislative vote by representatives, signed into law by a governor or president, and duly tested at the Supreme Court level?

Is morality a fickle thing, ever-changing and never fixed?

Is it what feels right to one person, though another may find it offensive?

Is it something that one person or group of people decide to do as long as it does not hurt anyone else?

These are all good questions, but is any one of them objectively sufficient to determine what is sinful or what is holy? For, in the end, right and wrong, good and evil, what is okay and what is not okay, boils down to the question of what is sinful and what is holy.

I ask my reader to consider this answer. The question comes down to “who is the ultimate authority?” All of the questions above have one thing in common; they seek the answer within humanity. In other words, the answer is a subjective opinion that is not fixed in any objective reality,

Always, the question we must ask is, “How do we know?”

Some will point to a supposed holy book, but there is only one Book that claims within its pages to be the self-authenticating revelation of the one and only self-existing Trinitarian God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).

I challenge my reader to show me any other written text that claims ultimate divine authorship and authority within its pages, one that does not need outside validation to prove its authority.

Only the Bible claims to be that authority because it claims to be the word of the Lord, infallible and inerrant in all it asserts.

The answer to the question of “how we determine what is right and wrong?” is to seek the answer in something objective and not subjective. The only objective standard we have is the Holy Bible.

If anything or anyone or any action contradicts the objective standard of morality set forth in Scripture, that action is sinful and unholy. Otherwise, it is simply a matter of opinion, and if a matter of opinion, those with more power will impose their opinion upon you, or you will be eliminated.

This is the result of humanistic evolutionary philosophy. It is encapsulated in the phrase "survival of the fittest" and "might makes right."

Welcome to where ungodly regimes have gone in the past and where our country and our world are heading in the near future.

The gospel of Jesus Christ, as set forth in the Bible, is the only thing that stands between us and the wannabe Hitlers and Stalins of the world or the tyranny of the mob that tramples those standing in the way.

It is “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” or it is the hellish will of a tyrant, whichever form this tyranny may take.

Which would you rather have, objective morality as defined by the perfect self-existing Creator of the Universe or ever-changing definitions of morality defined by fallen and fallible human beings?

As for me, I will choose Christ every time!