Right and Wrong

We live in an age where relativism is the coin of the realm - what people bank on. Our culture wants to believe that right and wrong have no real meaning, that those words are relative to each one's situation and point of view. 

Imagine if we applied that thinking across the board. What if the actual volume of a gallon of gas you bought was determined by the station owner?   What if 13oz was the actual weight of a pound of meat as determined by the butcher?  Would you feel comfortable deciding precisely the volume of chemo to be injected or exactly where and how much radiation to apply to your cancer?  

I've helped build a few houses in my lifetime. Each time we employed the use of plumb lines, levels, chalk lines and such. Why not just decide each time what was straight or level or plumb?  Why go back to a standard of orthodoxy in distance and direction and level set so long ago?  Because straight is straight and level is level and x many inches is x many inches. The standard is there because the standard is actual and factual, not relative to individual whims. 

The apostle John wrote, "the one who does what is right is righteous" (1 John 3:4) and "the one who does what is wrong is not a child of God" (1 John 3:10). John is plainly saying that there is a right and a wrong in God's sight. And God, despite how much we might want to waffle, "does not change like shifting shadows" (James 1:17).

Despite our fickle cultural mores, there always has been and always will be right and wrong, good and evil, true and false. It is not up to us to determine what those are but rather to discover what they are by searching out the truth from God's Word and from His creation. 

Jus' Sayn.