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Almost daily someone repeats the claim that abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and similar sins are “perfectly all right,” and that Christians have no right to impose their moral standards on others. I recently saw the same argument in New York Magazine, where an advertising executive insisted that even colored toilet seats are a matter of ultimate importance, and that anyone who denies this is “legislating their moral systems on other people.” His conclusion was simple: there are no standards whatever a man declares important is important, and no one may contradict him. But the issue is not your moral system or mine; it is God’s. God’s Word establishes an objective hierarchy of values, and His law not our whims judges every man. We have no right to exalt personal preferences, however cherished, over what God declares weighty. Ironically, that advertising executive was doing exactly what he condemned: legislating his own irrational moral system in defiance of God’s law, and in the process proving Scripture true “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isa. 8:20).
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0:00CR101radio.com podcast and more 17. Moral standards Almost daily, someone reports to me that they heard someone argue that abortions, homosexuality, mercy killings and much, much more are perfectly alright, and that Christians have no right to force their moral standards and other people Recently, I encountered the CM arguments in another area in New York magazine A prominent advertising executive has condemned people who feel some things are more important than others For example, he insisted that colored toilet seats are a very important matter He declared in an interview quote I say that it matters that toilet seats are colored Those people who say that these are only marginal differentiations are full of S They are legislating their moral systems on other people
1:00End quote In other words, there are no standards If I say that the color of a new shirt is more important than a man's life, then no man has a right to disagree For to do so is to legislate quote their moral system on other people end quote But it isn't a question of my moral system or yours, but God's There is an objective standard of writing wrong established by God's word, and I cannot be judged over it It judges me and all men There is a hierarchy of values in God's universe I cannot place my interests whether they be important to me or not above those things which God declares to be important God, my right of creation, legislates for all men That advertising executive was guilty of trying to legislate his moral system, a very bad one on other people, and to overthrow God's law
2:01Of course, all he has done is to make a full of himself Scripture declares quote, to the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them Isaiah it's 20 The kindest thing you can say for that advertising man is that there is no light in him, nor much sense either
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