Jonny Heart: Right and Wrong, Truth and Lie. (more on the law)

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Right and Wrong, Truth and Lie. (more on the law)

I want to talk about the simple nature of Right and wrong or good and evil. This understanding creates the foundation of Christian beliefs. Do you comprehend that because good exists so does the option of evil? Yet evil cannot result unless someone establishes goodness. God accomplished this; every act of God results with righteousness. The two do not disagree, and cannot secede. Romans read, “Because law brings wrath. Where there is no law there is no transgression” (Rom 4:15) If simple goodness didn’t exist then how could evil exist? We never could have rebelled to begin with if absolute goodness never dichotomized wrong from itself. Without good or right then how would a person identify an act as wrong or evil? Whenever any person deems a behavior wrong or bad this only happens because they base that judgment off of what they know as righteous. How do they know the righteous ways? I turn again to Romans.
In Romans 1:19 “since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
“Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the [Mosaic] Law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending” (Romans 2:14,15)
God shines through creation so that man can always have a link to righteousness for determining truth. Truth is not up for interpretation. Only one truth exists. To say otherwise means to undermine the very definition of the word. If everyone claims their own truth then it no longer becomes truth but relative ideas, and hopes of a unified law are lost. What possible Law shall dictate the natures of a life and bondage freedom of expression and choice? Love. Love written at the beginning of time by a being so unimaginable and perfect. This terrible dictation called God or worse Religion does not bring iron bondage but a freedom that liberates life for anyone who truly embraces his majesty. No dictation at all but a relationship. Those who ignore it follow in the footsteps of generations before just as Romans 1 states, “they gave the truth up for a lie.” Whether a person believes in God or not begins frivolous next to fact that the Law and its writer exist. He believes and hopes for everyone because of Love. Because of Adam and Eve, we know good as well as evil. This truth does not harm nor limit. This Law does not cause hate nor segregate. Instead when understood seperates evil from good and in the anguish of a fallen people shines love and direction to everyone willing to desire THE TRUTH.

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Quotes from my Senior Patron

-Clive Staples Lewis-

"The Love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

The Problem of Pain

"We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which he will not be satisfied until it has a certain character."

Mere Christianity - (Pg. 31)

"This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again. We cannot do without it, and we cannot do with it. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies."

The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis (Pg. 31)

"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said anything we happened to like doing, what does it matter so long as they are contented? We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senile benevolence who, as they say, liked to see young people enjoying themselves, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, a good time was had by all."

"If we wish to be rational, not now and then, but constantly, we must pray for the fit of faith, for the power to go on believing not in the teeth of reason but in the teeth of lust and terror and jealousy and boredom and indifference that which reason, authority, or experience, or all three, have once delivered to us for truth."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 139-140)

"It is not reason that takes away my faith: on the contrary, my faith is based on reason. It is my imagination and emotions. The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on the other... Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your ganging moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know by experience..."

A Grief Observed - (P.g. 9-10)

"I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with toothache, thinking about toothache and about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 7)

"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 32)

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. Most of us have got over the pre-war wishful thinking about international politics. It is time we did the same about religion."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 56-57)

"Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something mush harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person-and he would not need it."