Never Ending Bias - Part One

John 3:17-21 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Jesus, above, explains why sinful unregenerate people hate the light of God’s truth plainly. It is important to know and understand the root cause for why someone would call “good” evil and call “evil’ good, because looking at the symptoms and side issues will not lead to the remedy, whether temporal in this life or eternally for the next. That which is against God’s holy word, will and way is evil. I read that, once the truth of living in the face of sovereign God, where formerly we judged ourselves by comparing ourselves to other fallen human being and thus came to a high opinion of ourself, we now measure ourselves against the ultimate standard of holiness. We realize that there is no safe category in which to put a Creator Lord God and disarm Him. Say that I love to drive all the time at excitingly great high and unsafe but thrilling speeds in my automobile on public highways which have posted lower speed limits. Would I do that with a law-enforcement officer beside me? So-to-speak, God is the righteous and omnipotent law-Maker, and the omniscient and omnipresent law-Enforcement Officer, and the just and holy court-Judge over His creation and created creators (aka “you and I). The reality of God’s gaze produces “moral nakedness” for or against the absolute law of God over all of our self-interests. Sproul explains that if there is a God, then we are not free to do wherever we want, whenever we want, as we please. We have a measure of freedom (we are not robots), but we can never be autonomous (self-governed). Thus God’s sovereignty is on a collision course with our own evil desires. The primordial temptation lie offered by the devil in the Garden of Eden was, “You will not die, but you shall be as gods” – Genesis 3:5. But if God is, I cannot ever be a god. And there are consequences. The desire for absolute freedom with no accountability is strong in the corrupt heart of man. Thus, we see the attacks on God, God’s Word in Holy Scripture, and Christians today. To achieve such freedom, God must be destroyed or denied. And if they get rid of Almighty Creator Holy Lord God, they get rid of guilt. But nobody can or will. The truth is never determined by our bias of what we want it to be. No matter how much anyone doesn’t want it to be true, that law-enforcement officer is right beside them, me and you. God is real, in authority and on the throne.

Romans 1:18-19 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

We’ll look at this autonomy issue in mankind’s never ending bias next post.

In Christ, Brian