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Cheney on Morality and Freedom

"Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue our family is very familiar with," Cheney told an audience that included his daughter. "With the respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone. ... People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to...." (Associated Press Story, BBC)

Vice President Chenney's statement made me recall parallels from the Bible in which men did what ever they wanted:

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes. - Judges 17:6

God's condemnation was upon Israel because of their moral relativism and disregard for the truth of God's Law. VP Chenney's statements, while "moderate", reveal the same profound moral relativism that is condemned in this passage.

God is incredibly gracious - words cannot describe the gift of salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who died for our sins. To comprehend His grace (favor to those deserving condemnation) one has to understand that God is not a moral relativist and is diametrically opposed to the Vice Presidents assertion:

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor [the] covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. - 1 Cor. 6

Jesus came to save sinners and preached repentance (Matt. 4:17) to them; for by the grace of God (Eph. 2:8,9) "whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13, Joel 2:32). Want to know more? Click Here

Posted by tim at August 27, 2004 6:43 AM

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