Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, November 02, 2009 6:11:29 PM
‘So once again, in what is becoming our Godless nation, we mistake the disease for the cure’. –Star Parker
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/02/new_hate_crimes_law_is_a_mistake
Jesus compared the Pharisees to white washed sepulchers, meaning those who appeared clean on the outside, but were full of all corruption on the inside.
Law has no power over the inner man; law is for the restraint of his outward behavior. Through the Law of God comes the knowledge of sin; this is what drives a man to the Gospel. Since sin is of the heart, the laws of autonomous man will only stir up increased lawlessness.
Now with the hate crimes law, men will attempt to judge the intent of other men. The Bible tells us clearly the intent of the heart…
‘the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually’ [Genesis 6:5].
Our natures are no different than the antediluvians. Man has lost longevity to limit the number of years in the pursuit of his depravity.
Let us properly identify the Pharisees of our day. We agree that their doctrine is ‘moral relativism and politicization of law’; this keeps them busy at making moral judgments for other people.
In rejecting the authority of Christ, they reject His moral law. At the subsequent breakdown of the culture, they are quick to impose their own morality. Using the force of arbitrary law, they strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
They are vigilant to guard against child abuse while advocating for tax supported abortion, the ultimate child abuse and the license for the neglect and abuse of older children. They restrict what children may eat and drink at school while exposing them to immorality and perversion as alternative lifestyles.
Let’s be clear who they are. The moralizing, moral relativists are the anti-theists who insist on a vain philosophy as the national religion based on the religious practice of radical naturalism with its beliefs in an impersonal beginning of a world without design and therefore without purpose.
Christ still speaks to the Pharisees…
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” [Luke 5:31]
The natural man rejects the cure because he does not see his sickness. Only those who sense their illness have need of a physician. Many are the devices of man invented to cover his need, from false religion to neo-science.
They do not feel their need for a physician because they are dead in sin. Man’s greatest plague requires the Great Physician.