“ Of two evils, choose neither ." Spurgeon's quote has been posted numerous times on social media by Christians who find themselves in a moral conundrum at the very thought of voting for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Here’s the problem with Spurgeon’s idea. Biblically there is no such thing as a choice between two evils. Let me explain. Moral philosophers and theologians have long spoken of the problem of "tragic moral choice", also known as the “incommensurability in values.” The man on the street simply calls it “choosing between the lesser of two evils.” The best known example of tragic moral choice is the one about the Nazis during WW II. Do you handover the Jews knowing that your choice makes you complicit in their deaths? Or do you lie and violate the Ninth Commandment? The Lutheran scholar, John Warwick Montgomery, has argued that such choices are unavoidable and of necessity cause us to sin. The Bible, however, takes a dim view of the
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While the sound of screaming heavy metal is as offensive to my ears as the sound of two people I love yelling at each other, I have become very aware of a world, intertwined at one time with my own, where the lost children of this generation drift down a sewage filled existence. Cutting themselves, drugging themselves, drinking as much poison as they can keep down, infecting each other with sexually transmitted diseases, murdering their offspring, brutalizing each other in barbaric ways, and in general, trying to find ways to cope with the pain of living, they wander through a Godless vacuum of domestic violence, divorce, abandonment, drug/alcohol induced poverty, racism, and ignorance. They live in a world without beauty, without hope, victims of sins against them and yet criminals in their own rejection of and rebellion against God and all He done to help them. At least this song, done in this fashion, might bring a lost human soul to the idea that there is a great and mighty God, The Creator, who is indeed real and worthy of THEIR worship and who has provided a way to have the condemnation of THEIR sin against Him removed and who mercifully makes the condemned stop loving the sewer and fills the dead heart with love for the Savior. It's hard to say that this version of "How Great Thou Art" is acceptable, but I cry out that God would reach these broken, hellish children with His grace. Maybe this song might do just that. Since this song was written in honor of God, and to worship Him, I personally can't imagine anyone worshiping God while screaming. However, the fact that someone took the time to produce it and put it on the internet makes me wonder, and to pray, that God will awaken a dead soul, while listening to it, to His greatness.
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ReplyDeleteCan't believe I missed this comment. very sorry. Yes, as odd as this version is, it may just reach some broken hearts. To that we pray.
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