Sacrificing Truth on The Alter of Reason.

I was recently informed that an acquaintance of mine was making a very serious life choice. It s not a sinful act per se, but a choice that is determining the outcome of the rest of her life. If it is not sinful you might be wondering why I am concerned about my friends choice, the answer lies in the fact that I am truly concerned because I want the best for her. I am not going to talk about it in the sense that I know what would inevitably be best for another person, but when you see things from a different perspective you have insight that the one making the choice doesn't have. To say that we are human and we all make mistakes, so we should delight in others bad behaviour is missing the point. Yes we are all human, but that doesn't excuse us from hurting others. In a world of relativity we have lost the sense of right and wrong, heaven and hell, good and bad. What I have learnt in life is that you cannot hide from the truth.

God created you in a way that you have a free will and a conscience, but some of us have lost our ability to see clearly. In a relativistic world we now look to other people to tell us the difference between good and bad and we fail to look into our own hearts to determine if I should do this thing. Reason is the ability to think a problem through by yourself, and come to a conclusion based on my conscience. If I tell you the right thing to do in this situation is to run to a better place, and you do not base your solution on the truth, you are looking to the highest good, not for yourself but for the majority.

If you base your feeling on the greatest evolution of thought for your highest good, then you will realise that it wasn't evolution that brought you to this conclusion, but our reasoning mind, which is either good or evil. What makes a mind thoughtless, is not the absence of truth, but the suppression of it.

This is Mike.

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