evaluation of individual and collective social "good."
Natural man has posited the three premises of moralism
ever since: (1) self-existent good, (2) self-determined good,
(3) self-potential of good. The moralities of men, with their
relativized, self-oriented standards of good and evil, are
always contrary to God's intent, always sinful, and always
derived from satanic source.
The Rejection of MoralityMorality is antithetical to all Christian belief and
behavior. Admittedly, if one does not understand the
foundation already laid in differentiating between morality
and Christianity, and the derivation of good and evil from
God or Satan respectively, then the statements below will
appear to be bizarre, outlandish and almost blasphemous.
(1) Morality is a joke. It is a bad joke that is not even
funny, because it is tragic. For the dedicated religionist,
morality is no joking matter. It is the basis of his religion.
But for the Christian, morality is a joke.
It was C.S. Lewis who first expressed this thought.
"I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties
and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that,
into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they