Thursday, June 26, 2014

What is Right? What is Wrong?

Who Says??

What is right?  What is wrong?  And who gets to determine the answers to these questions?  For a nation to be truly united, most of its citizens must agree on the answers to these questions  -  or at least agree that there are answers to be found.  For years, most Americans have turned to a belief in God and the Bible for answers.  From the Creation story to the Ten Commandments to the Gospels to the Epistles, the Bible provided an explanation for the meaning of life and instructed us in moral principles.  We held to a Judeo-Christian standard while respecting the beliefs of those who didn't share them, and that standard saved us from confusion. Today, fewer people believe in the Bible, or even in absolute truth, and our rejection of an objective moral standard has thrown our society into disarray.  If in fact we do really believe in God and His word, many of the moral "gray" issues of today become black and white.

( Dr. Ben Carson, One Nation, 2014, pgs192-193)

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