A man once told me that “there are no absolutes!” We were having a discussion about his moral accountability before God. I didn’t mean to back him into a corner, but in his pride he actually thought that he could determine what was right or wrong for himself, despite what the Bible or his conscience said about it. How convenient.
So, in an effort to excuse themselves for the sins they hold so dear, and prove that morality is relative, he and others like him routinely come up with the old, “There are no absolutes” argument, which is easily refutable.
I simply asked him, “Are you absolutely sure?” and his entire argument fell on its own sword. The expression, “There are no absolutes,” is an absolute statement. Think about it.
There are certain things that are always true, whether we or society as a whole likes them or not.
For example 1+1 will always = 2. Math doesn’t lie. As much as I would like it to sometimes, like when I balance the checkbook after spending too much on vacation, the numbers won’t lie, whether they are painful to me or not. I can try to fudge them in my register if I want to, but they won’t be convinced down at the bank by my fuzzy math.
Imagine if a group of people formed a committee to say they no longer wished to be bound by the law of gravity. Hundreds of them boarded airplanes and made a 10,000 foot jump together in defiance of a restrictive law that imposed its rules upon them. We all know how foolish that would be. The impartial law of gravity would have the same merciless effect on the entire lot of them.
So it is with those who deliberately violate the laws of God. To some, obedience to God is a loathsome concept. We live in a culture that is rapidly ridding itself of any inkling of accountability to a Creator, and the moral decline that is follows is increasingly decadent. Both on an individual and on a national level, people are changing the rules when it comes to defining right or wrong, and in doing so are casting off all restraint.
But God’s authority over their lives is not nullified simply because they reject it. Sure, they may get away with refusing to submit to Him, for a while, but the day is coming when they will answer to Him. Hebrews 9:27 says it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that to face judgment. According to Revelation 20, books will be opened, and the dead will be judged out of those things written in the books, according to their works.
Jesus said every idle word that men shall speak, they will give an account of on the day of judgment.
And whether anyone here on earth can bring themselves to do it now or not, the Bible promises that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
It will be an awesome, long awaited day of unspeakable joy for many, and a day of awful indescribable horror for others.
In God’s great love for the world, he has provided an escape route through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He can either be you Savior, or your Judge.
Which do you choose?