Moral Standards

Almost daily someone repeats the claim that abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and similar sins are “perfectly all right,” and that Christians have no right to impose their moral standards on others. I recently saw the same argument in New York Magazine, where an advertising executive insisted that even colored toilet seats are a matter of ultimate importance, and that anyone who denies this is “legislating their moral systems on other people.” His conclusion was simple: there are no standards whatever a man declares important is important, and no one may contradict him. But the issue is not your moral system or mine; it is God’s. God’s Word establishes an objective hierarchy of values, and His law not our whims judges every man. We have no right to exalt personal preferences, however cherished, over what God declares weighty. Ironically, that advertising executive was doing exactly what he condemned: legislating his own irrational moral system in defiance of God’s law, and in the process proving Scripture true “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isa. 8:20).