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The recent tragic and shocking killings at Virginia Tech
emphasize again the failing fabric of our society. While many will speak out
and point fingers at guns, drugs, or how the killer was treated as a child or
by a lover, the simple fact remains that he knew what he was doing. He went to
a college school building, apparently locked doors behind him, carried enough
ammunition to murder scores of people, then ruthlessly, and apparently
mercilessly, killed dozens.
Of course you and I believe that what was done was wrong.
But why was it wrong? In institutions of higher learning, in our public
schools, and even in many churches, students are told there are no absolutes
like "you shall not kill", "you shall not commit adultery",
and "you shall not steal." Instead it is explained that since we are
evolved animals, and society says some of these things are wrong, we should not
do them. The day of the Virginia Tech killings was also Holocaust Remembrance
Day! The German society of the late 1930's and early 1940's had
"evolved" to the point of believing there were exceptions to
society's rules about killing. In that case the Jews were targeted for
extermination. Societal "absolutes" change with society and culture.
The only way to truly curtail events like the Holocaust,
Columbine, or Virginia Tech is to make people aware that they are responsible
to an Almighty God who has stated absolutes like those found in the Ten
Commandments of Exodus 20. If
society believes that it answers only to itself the outcome is catastrophe.
When the people of Israel "did what was right in (their) own eyes" (Judges 17:6) the nation
slid into darkness and servitude to its enemies. It is past time for the
followers of Christ to point again to God's absolutes and the ultimate absolute
of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ!
All Scripture references are from the New American
Standard Version unless otherwise noted.
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~You Shall Not Kill
