Its All in Black and White

Prompt:Right or Wrong



I believe myself to be an absoultist. Which is basically stating that there are no "gray areas" when its comes to what is moraly right or wrong. Right or wrong is like night and day, positive and negative, black or white or the sky and the ground. There is no half way point when it comes to these absolute truths. Genesis 1:1 is an example of this truth. God created "the heavens and the earth". Not the heavens and the earth and something in between.

Right or wrong is not something we need to compromise to suit our own personal opinions or needs. There has to be an absolute law to where you can draw a clear line. Yes there are different situations that one might say right or wrong can be skewed a little. But the foundation of what is right is still there. You must go off the basis of what we know to be right.

I believe that everyone has instilled in them a sense of what is right or wrong. Although, to admit this would mean we would have to hold ourselves accountable for our actions. Some actions are not the right thing but the easy or convenient decision at the time. For example, it is always wrong to steal, cheat or kill someone. Our emotions might tell us that these things are ok but if we were to think logically ,without emotions clouding our judgment, we would see they simply are not.

Yes it would be more convenient to say there is a gray area to where we can debate what is right or wrong in our own eyes. And yes it would be convinient to not have to hold ourselves accountable for our actions, especially if they are not the "right"actions. It is a human’s natural behavior to mess up from time to time ,or to not act upon what we know to be right. We'd like to think that we are to perfect and are never wrong. What we decide to be right is right for us. Therefore, we can argue that we must not be viewed to be wrong because of our circumstances.