I guess I
should start my two part commentary on this quote by asking a few questions.
What gives
things their value?
What makes
things beautiful?
What makes
things moral or ethical?
Who measures
these things?
Is it
possible that the observer or the measure of these things affect the value,
beauty or morality of that which is being evaluated?
It is nearly
always the assumption of the atheist or non-believer that true unadulterated
ideas of justice, knowledge and morality can be truly grasped and understood
absent of God. The above quote proves this. Steve Pinker is an experimental
psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author. He is
also Harvard College Professor. He is known for his advocacy of evolutionary
psychology and the computational theory of mind. According to an issue of Salon
magazine, He is also a proud atheist along with his wife. (1)
It never
seems to sink in that things like knowledge can only be grasped in a relative
way without an objective/absolute knowledge/truth source. True knowledge and true justice can only be understood as such in a
perfectly moral context…associated to a perfectly moral and just God. In an
absence of God or an ultimate Moral Law Giver, who supplies the gauge for
morality? Who could? What is left after God that is cognizant and able make a
judgment like this? Man is all that is left. So I ask you, is man really the
measure by which you want you morality and justice defined. I cringe at the
thought and so should you.
Man becomes
the definer of what is moral, what is just, what is beautiful. Therein lies the
problem. These things are therefore defined by a capricious ever wayward and
sinful being.
Job 5:7 ~
“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”
Galatians
5:17 ~ “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of
the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep
you from doing the things you want to do.”
Romans
3:10-11 ~ “As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
In other
words, when sinful men meet a fallen world, sparks fly. There’s something about
man born into the world that inevitably leads to trouble. Mankind and their
thinking is infamously fickle and unreliable when it is absent an unconditional
love towards others. Even in their redeemed state man will struggle in sin and
cannot fully think clearly and righteously. Man needs a closely intertwined
relationship with God if he wants any hope of making an even remotely moral decision.
If this relationship with God is compromised in any way, man quickly falls by
the wayside and digresses from true moral thinking and true knowledge and
wisdom. Why? Because the fear of God and understanding of biblical precepts is
the beginning of true knowledge and wisdom. The man who leaves God behind like
the atheist then uses the gauge of the culture and society to measure their
morality, their baseline of knowledge and what they consider is beautiful.
The farther
the society itself is from God the worse or more inaccurate the measure of
these things. I believe this is why we still have some modicum or illusion of
morality in society but as more and more of society falls away from
Christianity, the more morals begin to wander into an amoral desert. This once
Christian nation still has residual morality floating around its system. I
believe this is due to some of its foundations being rooted in the God of the
Bible and Biblical principles. As time goes on and more and more people
apostatize from the One True God, the more we begin to see the underlying moral
fabric of the United States dissolve to immorality.
That is why
the new measure of beauty is an image of perverted sexuality, not just
aesthetic /moral beauty. It isn’t an issue of aesthetics as it is an issue of: What
can your beauty or handsomeness do for me. People are things to be cherished not
objects on display, objects to be controlled or owned, objects to be used and
discarded. Therefore beauty and people’s beautiful character are nothing more than a commodity to be traded or bartered withn today. Many will claim they are “moral” but are in reality self-serving and self-seeking. Marriages
are not even institutions of selfless love, many are institutions of selfish
love and that is why more than half of marriages today end in divorce. People
want to know why so many marriages are failing. I pretty much just told
you why. People enter into a Godly covenant….without God.
Marriages
without God then become nothing more than sociocultural contracts. It is God
that keeps the marriage together when the garbage hits the fan. No God, no
restraint. No restraint…failed marriage and divorce. A wandering eye then leads
to a suffocating lie. At the point of departure from God men and women become
products not people. This is the new measure of beauty when we deviate from God
and make sinful wayward man the measure of value. We become nothing more than
demoralized or devalued merchandise. We saw the same in the Old and New
Testament when people abandoned a proper understanding of God.
Jeremiah
23:14 ~ “But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they
commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so
that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and
its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
1 Corinthians
5:1-2 ~ “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and
of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's
wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done
this be removed from among you.
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