The Origin or Marriage Like all of God’s laws, those regarding manhood and womanhood are part of a non contradictory and coherent unified whole. In this section we’re going to look at four factors relative to men and women that are so tightly linked and interrelated by God that they can’t rightly be considered apart from one another. They are marriage, single life, male authority, and sexuality. We’ll begin with marriage, because that’s where God laid the foundation for all righteous interactions between men and women. It’s good to look at marriage first because it’s impossible to understand the role…
God commands us to honor the sanctity of life – it’s part of loving God and others and a recognition of the uniqueness and value of humans in God’s eyes. Man is unique because God created him in his own image. That alone is enough to impart value, but God has also shown he values man in other ways. he gave him dominion over all earthly creatures (Gen. 1:26) and sent his own Son to die for our sins, so those who believe in him may inherit eternal life. Our lives are neither our own nor anyone else’s–they belong to…
False worldviews demonstrate God’s sovereignty Jesus said the great and foremost commandment was “…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…” (Matt. 22:37). It’s a restatement of the sense of the first four of the Ten Commandments, which deal with man’s obligation to God. Those who love God won’t honor false gods or idols or take God’s name in vain. Rather, they will love him, worship him, and glorify him as the One and only true God. To love God above all else is man’s greatest obligation…
False moral laws declare God’s Sovereignty I’ve said that any moral law at variance with God’s moral law is false and evil. This is a God centered definition that the lost reject, many adamantly. Consider the position of Secular Humanists. They deny the existence of God and declare any consideration of God or the things of God irrational. In that they are rational–if something is non-existent it warrants no consideration. But, Secular Humanists must have moral laws to fill the void. So, they need a basis for their laws. What is their basis? They say they look to human experience.…
Declaring good evil and evil good False moral laws are declarations of moral good or evil at variance with God’s moral law. They declare good evil and evil good. Since any variance from God’s law is evil, all false moral laws are evil, without exception. Though all false moral laws share a rejection of God’s law, together they don’t comprise a coherent, rational, non-contradictory whole because none is possible apart from God. Thus, though there are many false moral laws, there is no “false moral law” equivalent to “God’s moral law.” The necessary purpose of false moral laws is to…
Tenants of God’s moral law Lastly, let’s consider the tenets of God’s moral law. If they aren’t strictly codified how do we know what they are? How do we know what it means to do good? What are his timeless and universal commandments and principles for living? Again, we briefly considered this regarding the definition of evil. God reveals his law through our conscience, the teaching and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the Bible. Though all three are important, the Bible is the most reliable. We may rationalize away our conscience and be insensitive to the teaching and guidance…
God’s moral law is the totality of his timeless and universal commandments and principles for living. Its nature is the reflection of God’s goodness. The law may be summed up as “Do Good.” The qualifiers “timeless” and “universal” are included to avoid confusion with commandments God gave that were limited to particular people, at particular times, to serve a particular purpose. For instance, as part of the Mosaic Law, God forbade the Israelites from eating the fat of oxen, sheep, and goats: The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat,…