March 25, 2007

• Dangerous Gray

  I have thought about this for awhile, and this is a very digested version of my conclusions.  Why is relativistic gray morally dangerous?  If there is no black or white, dark or light, right or wrong than everyone is free to draw their own circle of truth.  There will be as many versions of truth as there are people populating the planet, which contradicts the very definition of truth.  Everyone will be a little god at best or a little satan at worst in the universe of his mind.  But what does it matter if there is only gray?  Satan and god become the same person.  And what happens when the universes collide?  Survival of the fittest?  What if the god/satan of my universe rationalizes a need for the possessions of another universe?  What if another universe blocks the path to my thirst for power?  What if the existence of another universe is not to my convenience?  Am I entitled to steal, conquer and kill?  I would like to think that the god of my universe would prevail over the satan, but history shows me that this is not the case.

  Gray allows me to define right and wrong.  It allows me to keep my pride and my rebelliousness.  Even if I may feel a healthy pang of guilt, gray allows me to say that "everyone is doing it" so I can ignore the warning.  Gray allows me to believe what I choose to believe whether it is true or not.  Gray allows me to keep my sin because compared to all the other gray people I am not so bad. 

  It is a mistake to compare one gray universe to another, because they are all imperfect.  A grey universe cannot have a standard circle of truth.  We all innately know truth exists, and we all innately know that we do not live up to it, but rather than drop our pride we attempt to ignore the entire question by proclaiming that God is dead or on a permanent vacation.  God as the Creator has free will, and gifted us with it when He created us in His image.  He does not take his gifts back, and he will not override our free will.  In his patience, he allows us to choose grey.  What we must realize is that this gray is the gray leading to eternal, dark night, not some optimistic bright morning.

  God, give us just enough misery so that we bring it to you and come to you for the cleansing that we really need. 

  I John 1:5-10

  "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

  If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

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