DAD'S RAMBLINGS – Inhumane Humanism
Romans 7:7, 12
"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have know sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.' .... Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good."
It is a dark and horrible place to live where there is no standard of right and wrong. There would be nothing noble, no morality, and no justice – no concept of what is holy and just and good. The law give us a standard to live by that elevates humanity above the rest of the animal kingdom. Humanism would do away with the absolute standards of what is right and wrong, but that only degrades humanity. Despite its claims to the contrary, humanism only leads people to be inhumane. The farther our society is removed from God's standards, the more evil and inhumane we become, as evidenced by the increase of school shootings, cheating, fraud, theft, computer hacking, rape and all the rest of what is abhorrent. But more than that, the law shows clearly how far short we fall of God's righteousness, and how much we need a Savior. "The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ" (Galatians 3:24).
TODAY'S THOUGHT: God's law is a standard of what is holy, just, and good.
Have a godly day. Love you.
Romans 7:7, 12
"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have know sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.' .... Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good."
It is a dark and horrible place to live where there is no standard of right and wrong. There would be nothing noble, no morality, and no justice – no concept of what is holy and just and good. The law give us a standard to live by that elevates humanity above the rest of the animal kingdom. Humanism would do away with the absolute standards of what is right and wrong, but that only degrades humanity. Despite its claims to the contrary, humanism only leads people to be inhumane. The farther our society is removed from God's standards, the more evil and inhumane we become, as evidenced by the increase of school shootings, cheating, fraud, theft, computer hacking, rape and all the rest of what is abhorrent. But more than that, the law shows clearly how far short we fall of God's righteousness, and how much we need a Savior. "The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ" (Galatians 3:24).
TODAY'S THOUGHT: God's law is a standard of what is holy, just, and good.
Have a godly day. Love you.
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