"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9 Nothing really is new: Same debates, same anger, same hatred.
The questions and arguments for truth never stop. I want you to take a look at a quote from the political science professor Robert Fitch, from a 1959 article entitled "The Obsolescence of Ethics": “Ours is an age where ethics (determining right from wrong) has become obsolete. It is superseded by science, deleted by philosophy and dismissed as emotive by psychology. It is drowned in compassion, evaporates into aesthetics and retreats before relativism. The usual moral distinctions between good and bad are simply drowned in a maudlin emotion in which we feel more sympathy for the murderer than for the murdered, for the adulterer than for the betrayed, and in which we have actually begun to believe that the real guilty party, the one who somehow caused it all, is the victim, and not the perpetrator of the crime.” Tell me, has anything changed, and should anything surprise you? As Isaiah said almost 2,700 years ago: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who puts darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty with a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent." Isaiah 5:20-23 You see, our problems are not unique. We are all humans living in a broken world. That is why we need Jesus. Have a nice day!
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