Who is right?
Are you morally right? If there's a dispute between you and the
whole world on a matter of good and evil, who is right? Can we be sure?
I ask that of people sometimes. Their answer is often that they know what is
right - that their conscience is clear. Is that a good reason to think we are
right? That we don't feel guilty about it?
I bet you'll think that these examples I give are of people who are not doing right. Their actions were objectively wrong. Did they think they were wrong?
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This is an article about cannibals from the Congo. When the chief saw the grief regarding his trophies, he was shocked that the white man wasn't proud of him.
"I saw one native hut,
around which was built a raised platform of clay a foot wide, on which were
placed rows of human skulls, forming a ghastly picture, but one of which the
chief was very proud, as he signified by the admiring way he drew my attention
to the sight. Bunches of twenty and thirty skulls were hung about in prominent
positions in the village. I asked one young chief, who was certainly not more
than twenty-five years old, how many men he had eaten in his village, and he
answered me thirty. He was greatly astonished at the horror I expressed at his
answer."
http://nationalvanguard.org/2013/11/the-roots-of-black-slavery/
A Nazi recalls his life under Hitler.
"I have followed it calmly and would without
hesitation follow it again because I am satisfied that at one point I could
serve the Fuehrer as a tool in his work, even though my former attitude, even
now, gives occasion to very worthy and honorable Party comrades to doubt my
trustworthiness. I have never paid attention to such things because I am
satisfied with the opinion which the Fuehrer and the men close to him have of
me."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Seyss_Inquart.html
- This one is powerful!
Pr. 16:2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives
are weighed by the LORD.
So don't conform yourself to your own seared conscience. Conform yourself to
the divine text. May your devotion to the Word shape and heal your broken moral
compass.