November 7, 2006

• A Moral Question

  If you do not tell someone that Jesus Christ is the reason we should not do something (something that is sinful), do you think it is better not to tell them at all?

  It is an interesting moral question a rather B movie called “Time Changer” raised recently- a Christian movie. And while the lead actor was rather poor at his work and the movie could have used some work, it brought up a very valid question. At first I strongly disagreed- we don’t always have to say “Jesus says” with every moral statement, it is sometimes wise not to turn someone off right away, right? Well the movie asks that question- and the main character, who was going to publish something regarding that, is sent into the future. He experiences life here and sees how because we do not have a moral absolute- we know plenty about what is the ‘right thing to do’ but we do not do it, because we have no absolute standard. A girl steals his food, and he tells her it is wrong- and a sin- to do it, and she says “Says who?”

  It is a rather strict interpretation but it is worth asking ourselves the question, after seeing the ‘world’ from the eyes of someone who has never seen our present culture before and comes from a more conservative one: are we numb? We say “Well, the movie I saw might blaspheme Jesus name, but there wasn’t any blood in it- no sex or anything”… well, that’s great, relative to other movies now. But what about relative to the Bible itself? What standard are we using besides God’s standard, and are we compromising it based on what others say or the fact it is ‘culturally obsolete’ (that is, it is a culturally bound truth but not a universal one- that is the excuse many people use: “oh, that was just the way people of that time were, we have to interpret it based on our present culture”).

  What do you think?
  
  

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