Moral Absolutes

"When I was nine years old, I complimented a friend's model airplane. He said, 'I stole it!' He could tell I was stunned because he asked, 'Do you think that was wrong?' When I told him I did, he answered simply, 'It may be wrong for you, but it's not wrong for me. I know the owner. He's rich...I'm not.'

"What do you say to that argument? If the majority opinion determines good and evil, what happens when the majority is wrong? A godly view of the world has something to say to my childhood thief. You may think it's right. Society may think it's okay. But the God who made you said, 'You shall not steal'---and he wasn't kidding. The hedonist's world of no moral absolutes works fine on paper and sounds great in a college philosophy course, but in life? Paul described it best in Romans 1:21, 'Their foolish minds were filled with darkness.'"

~ By Max Lucado

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