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Truth, Common Grace, and Convictions#261
One of our ongoing jobs is to identify and describe everything around us.This was the task of Adam in the Garden. "Out of the ground God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). This was the beginning of the process of naming all the fauna and flora. The animals are all given distinctive names. The birds, snakes, mammals, insects, and reptiles are all specifically named. The different species of trees and tulips, dandelions and daisies, shrubs and grass each have names by which they are identified. I wonder how anyone could consider truth to be relative. Why if truth were relative, a puppy might be a snake, and two plus two might be five. Science would be impossible. You could never get a firm diagnosis from a doctor because he could never pinpoint and accurately name a disease. Mathematics would be impossible. A college professor might say that two plus two equals five. You could say, "Not for me. Two plus two equals six." Of course, all of this is foolishness. So why do we use the same arguments when it comes to morality? Are there no absolute moral standards? Of course there are. The proof is your own conscience. Listen carefully to the practicality of the Bible on this point. "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them" (Romans 2:14-15).
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