May 10, 2010 – Wisdom 1-2

Calumny - a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something.  Well, if someone picked up the Bible and only read the first handful of verses in 2nd chapter of Wisdom, they would have a pretty warped sense of our belief and religion.  When we think that the atheist and modern thinking people of our age are new to the world, look at the description in Wisdom and you will see that there have always been those like that. 

“For haphazard were we born….our body will be ashes and our spirit will be poured abroad like unresisting air…So our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and will be dispersed like a mist pursued by the sun's rays and overpowered by its heat…For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow…Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are real, and use the freshness of creation avidly”

Is there a better description for the idea of moral relativism.  We were just created randomly, life is just our life of earth, there is nothing afterwards, we should do what makes us feel good.  And I love how that idea leads into the actions it will cause.  Hurting the poor for gain, not helping those is need.  Then it goes directly into a prophesy about how they will treat the Son of God.  He is different from us, God will protect Him, let us see if He is who He says He is, “ Let us condemn Him to a shameful death.”  They tested God and the Son of God by putting the Son of God to death to see if He would save Himself.  These couple chapters show us what the idea of atheism and moral relativism lead to.

All that doesn’t mention that the 1st Chapter tries to explain that God created all good things and loves and cherishes them all.  The things that are evil in the world, when bad things happen, it is brought about by the sin that was brought into the world by people.  These are two very interesting chapters.