24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine
and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And
the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house,
but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. – Mat 7:24-25
Our society is rapidly changing. The things and values which
we considered as abnormal and taboo are now considered to be the new normality. In
the above verse, Jesus says that whoever obeys His commands and lives according
to His words would be like a person who has built his house on a solid
foundation. The ethics which the Bible teaches would withstand the troubles and
dangers of our life and will be a blessing for us.
Bible says in Psalm19:7, “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul”. A law can
be ethical only if it is given by an infinitely Holy and Righteous being, who
is only God. But instead if we follow the world and its way of ethics, then it
would be a snare for us, not only in our Spiritual life, but also in our daily
living. Any other ethics which is not from God, is from a finite, fallible
being, which would be fallacious. I will show the fallacies of some of the
worldly ethics.
Abortion and Holocaust:
Many say that abortion is a rightful ‘choice’ which
every woman can make. If a woman feels she doesn't need a child, then she can
do Medical Termination of Pregnancy. People supporting abortion argue saying it
would bring economic burden to the poor families. But Hitler also argued that
Jews are the reason for the economic burden of Nazi Germany, and murdered them
in concentration camps. He followed the same principle of abortion.
Some say if the child conceived is deformed or ill, we can
abort. By what criteria, would you define the illness of a child which requires
for abortion or not? For some, a child with Down’s syndrome can be a candidate of
abortion. For others even short fingers can be a deformity. Who defines it? If
deformed babies can be killed, then why not kill deformed and old aged people,
so that the ‘burden’ of the society can be reduced? Hitler also killed people
who are old, people with Down’s syndrome etc. in concentration camps quoting
the same reason.
So you can see that the reasons for abortion are based on a
flimsy ground which is self-contradictory. Scripture says, in Gen 9:6, “Whoever
sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man
in his own image.”
Since man is made in the image of God, no human being has a
right to take the life of any other man even if he is deformed. Since life
starts at conception (Psa 51:5), each and every embryo conceived is a human
being made in the image of God. So to do abortion is to murder that person.
Religious freedom Vs Tyranny:
Many atheists would proudly say that most of the wars of
this world are fought due to religion. They say that religious people
(especially Christians) are the most intolerant people of all times. If that is
the case, why are all the communistic countries of the world like North Korea,
Soviet Union, Cuba, China etc, based on atheistic principles, committing human rights violations much more than the
countries founded by Christian principles? What made countries whose
constitution founded by Christian values like the U.S, Britain and even India,
striving for religious freedom?
It is because right to freedom of religion is based on
Christian principle. A person can believe in Christ only if God enables him to
know the truth and gives him the power to believe. A sinful man is spiritually
dead (Eph 2:1). And Christianity is a
religion not based on external changes but based on change in heart (Eze36:25-27). And only God can change a person’s heart (2Cor 10:4). So instead of following
the worldly way of intimidation and fear, we preach Christ crucified with grace
and peace and wait on the Lord to bring the changes in people’s hearts.
Jesus says, in Mat 7, “26 And
everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a
foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And
the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that
house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” Whoever bases his ethics on
a Non-Biblical worldview, is like the guy who builds his house on sinking sand.
His ethics will crumble by self-contradiction.
Christian, what is your worldview based on? Is it based on Scripture,
the solid rock or the world, the sinking sand?
Here is a video by Dr. Ken Ham who describes how
biblical worldview based on Genesis to Revelation can be a blessing for
humanity:
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