As a Christian, I find it very disturbing that in our increasingly relativistic culture, the justification of almost any behavior is deemed acceptable (or unacceptable) based solely on society’s changing whims.

It’s the classic frog in the kettle story. What was once morally revolting becomes tolerable.

What is tolerable becomes acceptable. What’s acceptable becomes protected.

But it doesn’t stop there. There are always new horizons of depravity to explore.

If an “urge” can be defined as an “orientation,” who’s to say that some people aren’t born with an “orientation” toward sex with children, animals or … worse?

Who could argue with them and from what basis?

In fact, they’d deserve the same special rights that homosexuals are demanding.

That’s precisely why they’re continually lobbying to lower the age of consent laws.

What if they find I have a kleptomaniac gene or have a chronic urge to lie, or have an illegal drug addiction?

Don’t you dare limit or hinder my drive to pursue pleasure, whatever form it takes!

Certainly it’s OK as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, right? What a fatal fallacy!

Since when has human behavior been evaluated by this standard? (Or simply because it’s consentual?) Never!

Without a fixed, moral authority, human nature will always gravitate toward the absence of all restraint.

A changing society cannot provide a stable moral reference point. Only God can.

Does almighty society really know what’s best for itself? History has proven the contrary.

The last world empire utterly crumbled from within and perished because of its “advanced” ideas of tolerating decadent behavior.

Without moral absolutes, we’re just unaware frogs in the kettle, and like them, over time … we’ll be dead.

You see, it’s not just “poor, deluded” Christians who understand this self-evident fact.

Well over a billion Muslims are ready to die defending moral absolutes.

All law is inherently moral.

Eventually, even this society will learn, perhaps the hard way, that we cannot avoid reaping what we sow.

The Bible itself predicts that in the end times, before the final judgment, lawlessness will increase as society and individuals become more and more callous to conscience.

Unknowingly, the relativists are actually fulfilling Scripture, and in many ways, the judgment has already begun.

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Perry Paulding

Pastor

Stonebrook Community Church