Ed Walsh
Puritan Board Senior
I don't really have a question. I just wanted to share something from my morning devotions that I think is very telling (a word Rush overuses) about our society in the USA. Especially the radical political left. The last paragraph made me grieve over our perverse modern culture.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The passover narrative, like most of the Bible, has been the target of skepticism by modernist scholars. Thus, Roy L. Honeycutt, Jr., was troubled by the fact that God killed children, i.e., the firstborn. He held that, either God’s character has “changed” or improved since then, or man now better understands the meaning of this and other events. He held that God used some “fatal epidemic,” and hence the deaths.
Such interpretations change nothing. They reveal the sentimentality of modern man, his inability to understand God, God’s law, or God’s judgments, and they are influential in furthering moral corruption.
We now have a generation which cannot execute hardened, habitual criminals, nor murderers, nor anyone else deserving death. Yet it favors abortion and the death of millions thereby; every year it legalizes sodomy; it is permitting euthanasia; and, as it steadily increases the murderous scope of its evil, it rejects God’s righteous judgments as cruel. Such men are tender-hearted towards evil and merciless towards God, His people, and His laws. They are the modern Egyptians.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The passover narrative, like most of the Bible, has been the target of skepticism by modernist scholars. Thus, Roy L. Honeycutt, Jr., was troubled by the fact that God killed children, i.e., the firstborn. He held that, either God’s character has “changed” or improved since then, or man now better understands the meaning of this and other events. He held that God used some “fatal epidemic,” and hence the deaths.
Such interpretations change nothing. They reveal the sentimentality of modern man, his inability to understand God, God’s law, or God’s judgments, and they are influential in furthering moral corruption.
We now have a generation which cannot execute hardened, habitual criminals, nor murderers, nor anyone else deserving death. Yet it favors abortion and the death of millions thereby; every year it legalizes sodomy; it is permitting euthanasia; and, as it steadily increases the murderous scope of its evil, it rejects God’s righteous judgments as cruel. Such men are tender-hearted towards evil and merciless towards God, His people, and His laws. They are the modern Egyptians.
Rushdoony, R. J. (2004). Commentaries on the Pentateuch: Exodus (p. 127). Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books.
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