Newspaper Commentator Harry Litman rejected the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized frozen human embryo as children. Chief justice, Tom Parker, wrote, “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself. [Alabama’s Sanctity of Life statute] recognizes that this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life…”
But for Mr. Litman, the “critical question” regarding the embryo is “whether it is a human deserving of the rights and protections accorded to all of us…” He added, “A stadium full of theologians, philosophers, theists and politicians couldn’t come up with an authoritative answer to that question.”
As such, he concluded that all should be able “to make their own decisions on a matter of the highest moral and practical import.” Essentially, he ruled out any acknowledgment of God as our Creator and that it is God who has accordingly established His created and moral order. And that’s the problem with his secular worldview, there’s no absolute morality. It’s a constantly changing construct, just opinion and self-serving pragmatism. Issues of gender, marriage, and sanctity of life are left to simply drift.
God’s existence is known in creation: “His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). He’s also made known what is good or evil in His word, and to those who don’t know the absolute moral law, they “show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them” (Romans 2:15).
As was pointed out in the court decision, the rejection of God’s moral order has consequences, the “wrath of God.” Mr. Litman and others who agree with him would do well to consider that, “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness… professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:18, 22).
But for Mr. Litman, the “critical question” regarding the embryo is “whether it is a human deserving of the rights and protections accorded to all of us…” He added, “A stadium full of theologians, philosophers, theists and politicians couldn’t come up with an authoritative answer to that question.”
As such, he concluded that all should be able “to make their own decisions on a matter of the highest moral and practical import.” Essentially, he ruled out any acknowledgment of God as our Creator and that it is God who has accordingly established His created and moral order. And that’s the problem with his secular worldview, there’s no absolute morality. It’s a constantly changing construct, just opinion and self-serving pragmatism. Issues of gender, marriage, and sanctity of life are left to simply drift.
God’s existence is known in creation: “His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). He’s also made known what is good or evil in His word, and to those who don’t know the absolute moral law, they “show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them” (Romans 2:15).
As was pointed out in the court decision, the rejection of God’s moral order has consequences, the “wrath of God.” Mr. Litman and others who agree with him would do well to consider that, “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness… professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:18, 22).