The Bible warned us about this in Isaiah 5:20-21:
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
You can’t even call someone out for doing wrong. When you do instead of admitting their error, they will attack you instead. We live in a time when nobody is wrong. Many refuse to accept accountability for their actions. People would rather justify them doing evil than repenting of their ways and doing what is right.
In our country there is a divide between Republicans and Democrats with good and evil being interchanged constantly until people really don’t know who to believe. Anything that is contrary to what someone believes is called “fake news” or attacked. The truth doesn’t stand a chance. Just because a politician or someone in the media believes something is true doesn’t mean it is. We have to be careful in weighing the good and evil. We can’t rely on what “they” say but trust what God has already said about it.
Apart from God, our value system will always become jumbled. We will begin to confuse sweetness and bitterness, light and darkness, and good and evil. Many look for every reason to disprove the Bible or have a belief in God rather than just simply doing what the Bible says. They would rather debate you and argue.
In these challenging days, we have to stick to a standard and that standard is the Holy Word of God. You can’t just base what is right on what you feel. Feelings change and we don’t like being told we are wrong. Somehow we have to fight to keep the separation between good and evil.
