do not talk of these things, except perhaps as a joke. Everyone
there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is
filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call
it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking
at the source from which it comes." 6Has anyone ever become "good" or "righteous" on the
basis of morally proper behavior? Impossible! Absurd!
That is what makes morality such a laughable matter: its
utter absurdity and impossibility (the basis of many a joke).
Morality is Satan's big laugh on mankind.
(2) Morality is a result of the fall of man into sin. As
noted, the deceptive temptation of the Tempter in the
garden of Eden was to suggest that man could develop a
self-determined knowledge of good and evil. That was the
first temptation – to develop morality, to establish an
independent, self-oriented standard of good and evil.
Rejecting the derived goodness of God, man opted for the
lie. Natural men, religious men, have been developing
moralities ever since, trying to regulate man's behavior.
(3) Morality is a lie. It is based on the lie of
independent-self, autonomous man. The true condition of
man is that of derivative contingency upon spiritual being
for both spiritual condition and behavioral expression.
(4) Morality is sinful. If sin is defined as anything not
derived from God, then morality is sinful because it