Page 028 - How Is Good, Evil and Evil, Good?
*Verses from AMP
"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!" (Amp: Isaiah 5:20)
God is definite about what He considers good versus evil. It is certainly not compatible with man's thought. In the New Testament Matthew 19:16-17 gives us a window. It says, "And behold, there came a man up to Him, saying, Teacher, what excellent and perfectly and essentially good deed must I do to possess eternal life? And He said to him, Why do you ask Me about the perfectly and essentially good? There is only One Who is good [perfectly and essentially]--God. If you would enter into the Life, you must continually keep the commandments."
In the mind of the Lord Jesus only God is good and if Jesus is truly good, then He must be God. Furthermore, one who is good keeps what God commands. Yet in today's climate of moral relativism, there are no absolute standards that man should live by. Even the church is influenced by what is not only politically, but morally correct by society at large. One might ask, is the church teaching the world or is the world teaching the church?
Man's rationalization of what he considers to be good has no merit when compared to the wisdom of God. Man's condition compared to God is declared in Romans 3:10-12, "As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one. No one understands [no one intelligently discerns or comprehends]; no one seeks out God. All have turned aside; together they have gone wrong and have become unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even one!"
Is it no wonder that man loses his way? When human beings decide to take over and act as God, determining their own moral values and goodness, without the living God as a compass, then surely something "Bad" becomes "Good!"