A morally confused world is a way of saying how things are. Yet even when a man cites Scripture and even mentions good and evil he cannot break from the chains of reducing everything down to political ideology and stopping there.
How can supposed such intelligent people tap dance along the fence while always refusing to clearly see, clearly speak, and clearly state the truth?
Political ideologies are like the container that rat poison is put into in order to be distributed, bought, and used to kill. It’s what’s inside that matters. Not the container. And inside of everything is the wickedness, the evil that men and women do. In utter rebellion to God. In utter hatred of God. Serving Satan the father of lies, of confusion, or mayhem and delusion.
It is so frustrating to turn on a television, open a newspaper, get online and read some articles, pick up a book in a bookshop and see nothing, hear nothing, find nothing but everything being reduced to either leftist political ideology or right-wing political ideology and that’s where everyone, including so-called religious people, Christian people, Jewish people make camp and crawl into their sleeping bag and they never come out.
Yes, we live in a morally confused world — but that is solely because we live in a world in which Satan is the prince of the air, earth is his domain for a season, and except for the remnant of God’s true people, the Lord Jesus Christ’s true disciples and those reading, believing, preaching the Word of God all other doctrines are of the world and have their origin in…I know you’re not going to like this and your instinct is to reject it out of hand…all other doctrines if not of God and the Holy Bible are founded in…EVIL.
Not according to me.
According to God and His inerrant infallible unchanging Word.
Search it to learn if what I write is true. Search it and you will learn if you truly desire to know the truth, that what I write is true.
Why is it that folks can’t come to know it’s evil at work and use that word? They can use every profane word, every lying word, every word of gossip, ignorance, foolishness, banality, and delusion yet they cannot bring themselves to call evil evil and sin sin and this lost and fallen world lost and fallen.
And the only solution, the only remedy, the only way out of this reality, this truth is to seek the truth, seek the remedy, seek the solution and that is present in only One Person. The Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, we all live in a morally confused world.
We are living in Romans 1:18-32. Exactly living in Romans 1:18-32.
With few, a remnant — a minority of the overall world population living Romans 1:16-17.
An abused, mocked, ridiculed, discounted, and persecuted minority. As it is written it is and will always be.
Or John 3:36.
Is it any wonder the world has revealed the people are going mad, being given over to their reprobate, wicked minds, where all the foundations are being removed and the words of Isaiah 5:20 ring truer than at any other period in world history, save for the days of Noah, which we are now living in?
Only a lot more people. All with glowing screens in their hands, most mocking God, showing a form of righteousness but not truly understanding or knowing the Holy Bible, not living as renewed of mind and spirit born anew disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ but living according to the world. According to this pagan, unrighteous world where the father of lies leads millions so many millions, billions astray each and every day.
Until and unless we speak clearly, speak plainly, speak firmly and boldly, until and unless we speak with the Word of God in our hearts and on our tongues and we continue to speak as the world we are among the confused.
Really, we are.
A true child of God, a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ cannot appear indistinguishable from the world. And this translates into, yes, fine, mention a political leaning, but direct the attention to why that political ideology exists.
And anyone against Israel, against God’s people, against God’s land — and Israel is God’s chosen land, or against Jerusalem as God’s and the Jews chosen city? Woe to those folks, woe to them!
Oh, again, not according to me. I’m nothing. But according to the Holy Bible.
And if you count yourself as a true Christian and you are opposed to Israel, you are against Israel you had better get a Bible, find a quiet place, pray to the Lord for forgiveness and understanding, ask the Holy Spirit to help you and come to find and believe and hold to the Biblical truths. Not this worlds lies.
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
It Takes a Morally Confused World to Be Anti-Israel
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.”
February 27, 2024
By Dennis Prager
Reprinted from FrontPageMag
The moral confusion of our time is therefore not new.
Almost 3,000 years ago, the Prophet Isaiah lamented, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
But at the start of the20th century, a new form of moral confusion was introduced. While there were always those who called good evil and evil good, shortly after Einstein discovered relativity in the natural order, Western civilization applied relativity to the moral order. As the late historian Paul Johnson wrote in “Modern Times”: “At the beginning of the 1920s the belief began to circulate, for the first time at a popular level, that there were no longer any absolutes: of time and space, of good and evil, of knowledge, above all of value” (italics added).
Until then, though often poorly applied or simply ignored, there was the belief in the West that moral truths exist. Then, as Johnson writes, “Mistakenly but perhaps inevitably, relativity became confused with relativism.”
Everything became relative — you have your values, I have mine; what I think (or more accurately, what I feel) is good is good, and what I think/feel is bad is bad. This is even true with regard to truth: As the increasingly popular saying goes, I have “my truth” and you have “your truth.”
Instead of good and evil, we now have a set of other “moral” categories: rich and poor, white and black, colonizers and colonized, strong and weak, oppressors and oppressed. Those in the latter groups — the poor, people of color, the colonized, the weak and the oppressed (real or alleged) — are, by definition, good, while those in the former categories are, by definition, bad. To cite one widely held example, blacks cannot be racist. I was taught that nonsense in graduate school in the 1970s, and it has become a truism among the well-educated.
This explains the widespread sympathy for the Palestinians and antipathy toward Israel.
In a morality-based world, Israel would be universally supported. But we don’t live in such a world; we live in the world of substitute-categories, and Israel falls into every one of the “bad” categories. Israel is perceived as rich, strong, white, a colonizer and an oppressor.
This is morally backward.
Israel is a modern liberal democracy. It has a robust free press, vibrant opposition and an independent judiciary. Two million Israelis — a fifth of the country’s population — are Arabs, who, in the words of the Council on Foreign Relations, “have the same legal rights as Jewish Israelis have.” They have their own political parties, with 10 seats in Israel’s parliament. Arabic, as any tourist to Israel sees, is, alongside Hebrew, Israel’s official language. There have even been Arab supreme court justices.
In fact, Arabs in Israel are, even now, considerably more pro-Israel than the New York Times, most Democrats and, of course, the United Nations. Reuters, which leans left, reported in November that “The Gaza war has dramatically increased the sense of solidarity with Israel among its 21% Arab minority.” And The Economist reported in mid-January, “Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel’s Arabs are feeling more Israeli … Two-thirds of Israeli Palestinians say they identified with their state, up from half before the war.”
Israel treats a vast number of Palestinians in its hospitals. During 2005 alone, approximately 123,000 Palestinians were treated at just one institution, Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem. Israel treated more than 4,000 victims of the Syrian Civil War in civilian hospitals at Israeli government expense.
Two weeks ago, the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, John Spencer, wrote in Newsweek that, during Israel’s war on Hamas, the country “has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history. … As someone who has served two tours in Iraq and studied urban warfare for over a decade, Israel has taken precautionary measures even the United States did not do during its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Israel provided days and then weeks of warnings, as well as time for civilians to evacuate multiple cities in northern Gaza before starting the main air-ground attack of urban areas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) employed their practice of calling and texting ahead of an air strike as well as roof-knocking, where they drop small munitions on the roof of a building notifying everyone to evacuate the building before a strike.
“No military has ever implemented any of these practices in war before,” Spencer concluded.
In contrast to decent, humane, democratic and moral Israel, Hamas, which is supported by the majority of Palestinians, is the moral equivalent of the Nazis. It routinely tortures Palestinian opponents of its tyrannical regime and is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and its Jews. It takes pride in burning Jewish families alive and the sexual torture, rape and mutilation of Jewish women.
Regarding Hamas’ cruelty, Amnesty International reported in 2015 the case of Atta Najjar, a former police officer under the Palestinian Authority:
“[Najjar] was serving a 15-year prison term imposed by a military court after he was arrested in 2009 and subsequently convicted of ‘collaborating’ with Israel. On 22 August 2014, he was taken out from the prison and executed.
“There were marks of torture and bullet shots on his body. His arms and legs were broken … his body was as if you’d put it in a bag and smashed it. … His body was riddled with about 30 bullets. He had slaughter marks around his neck, marks of knives. … And from behind the head, there was no brain. Empty … It was difficult for us to carry him. … He was heavy, like when you put meat in a bag; no bones. His bones were smashed. They broke him in the prison,’ said his brother, who retrieved the body from al-Shifa hospital morgue on 22 August 2014.”
But Israel’s decency and Hamas’ cruelty mean nothing to much of the world, especially the Left, the universities and the media. Because who is good and who is evil doesn’t matter. Only who’s rich and who’s poor, who’s white and who’s black, who’s strong and who’s weak, who colonizes and who’s colonized, and who oppresses and who is oppressed.
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