To write a post about ethics – firstly, I think it’s important to define ethics. Here is a standard definition: Ethics is a branch of philosophy that systematically studies, defends, and recommends concepts of right and wrong behavior. It provides a framework for evaluating human actions, establishing moral principles, and answering the practical question of how people ought to live

I believe there is a big problem with that definition. Human ethics say on one hand, there is no wrong answers – only right answers. We have different life experiences, different cultural practices and beliefs, and different views on what is moral.

Some people would argue that Christianity has nothing to add to ethics, that some of the worst things done to people was done in the name of God. And that isn’t wrong – the question is however, were those things done by an actual Christian, a true follower and believer in Christ… I’d say in modern times, the answer is no. We have Jesus Christ, the perfect man, God in the flesh as the perfect example of strength of character, coupled with love, mercy for sinners, but yet, absolute in obedience to God the Father – as Jesus said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”.

Let’s unpack that a little bit. Jesus is not saying she wasn’t morally culpable, or that her behavior didn’t need to change. However, what is Jesus saying here? He was saying that guilty people should not judge guilty people… now that doesn’t mean you can’t verbally correct someone who is wrong, it means they wanted to stone her to death for her sin, yet all those people were also sinners guilty of sin themselves – whatever sin that might be, theft, lying, what have you. And if Jesus didn’t cast first, then who were they to judge. They weren’t wrong in saying she had sinned, but so had they in their own lives.

In the definition above is the text “concepts of right and wrong”. This truly is where the rubber hits the road. The concept of morality itself demands an objective immutable standard. What does that mean? That means that like the shifting sands pictured in this post, human “morality” isn’t really moral at all, it’s like a local weather system – constantly updated, ever changing and with no guarantee of what tomorrow may bring. In a solely humanistic lens, – if a large enough set of people agree on anything, no matter how vile, evil, or perverted – we can adopt that agreement into an acceptable moral and legal law. Let that sink in – anything. Imagine the worst human practice your mind can imagine and it has a chance for a place at the table.

Why is that? If we ourselves (humanity) define the “ought”, then it can be anything. In the lens of the Holy Bible, the New Testament, specifically the 12 commandments and Jesus’s life, along with the other teachings of the Bible – we have an immutable framework of morality, sets behavior as prescribed by the creator for the basis of true ethical practices.

Today, some people believe that all beliefs are valuable and right, that in itself is illogical and a contradiction. All paths leads to salvation – that also can’t be true. Do you think Hitler’s path led to salvation?

Every generation bring about new beliefs, each one thinking it was wiser than the last. For example, when I was a child, say 10 years old – I talked to people all the time, no problems.. strangers, men, women, boys, girls… everyone. And guess what, I just talked to them normally and nobody was offended – I didn’t have to ask anyone pronouns, if it was a female, we said, her or she or whatever depending on the structure of the sentence we were building in our mind, same for men, boys, him. I don’t feel threatened when a person has their pronouns listed… I just think that back when I was a ten year old boy, the world had a LOT more common sense. A descriptor even one as basic as a pronoun – needs to be mapped to biological reality, not mental fantasy.

Without a objective moral standard, truth is the first casualty. Do you believe in a creator? That’s a heavy question for sure. Let’s say for a second that you do… do you believe that being is intelligent? Christians believe that God made mankind in his image. Even if you are not a Christian but you believe in a creator, you must believe certain things are true. Please think carefully if you agree with me on the concept of a creator.

A creator of life would have to be vastly powerful, vastly intelligent, to make all life on earth, the ecosystems, and food chain, DNA, biology and the list goes on… imagine listing all the disciplines involved. There is literally hundreds of fields, probably thousands of fields of study that would be required to be mastered fully before any “creator” could create anything.

That would a being unlike any other – who could be it’s rival? Nothing I am aware of, and yet we are asked to believe this all powerful, all knowing being – can’t put people into their correct bodies? So is this being all these things and yet makes the most fundamental mistake that anyone can make… or is it more likely that we are born in the body we have always belonged in. Say whatever you want about me – but be careful here.. if you truly believe in the creator of life – are you telling him with your actions and words he’s wrong and you – a created being; knows better than he ever did?

Let me leave you with this… does this sounds like an accident to you? Now with the technology we have – we can see, we are actually knitted together in our mothers womb, verbatim to the words below.

Psalm 139:13-16

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Jason