Not likely, as since good vs evil is the same thing to the lost as morally acceptable/unacceptable.
? If one were to use the scriptures, the questions become more black-and-white rather than shades of grey. But the real question is what is the yardstick?
Indeed, and the departure from committed corporate consent to Scripture as the accurate, wholly inspired and authoritative Word of God, with its self-evident interpretation of itself, is what is behind the moral anarchy of America today.
As this statement by Daniel Webster prophetically foretells,
• And let me say, gentlemen, that if we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God, and shall respect His commandments, if we and they shall maintain just moral sentiments and such conscientious convictions of duty as shall control the heart and life, we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country; and if we maintain those institutions of government and that political union, exceeding all praise as much as it exceeds all former examples of political associations,...It will go on prospering and to prosper.
But if we and our posterity reject religious institutions and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifile with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. Should that catastrophe happen, let it have no history! (“The Dignity and Importance of History,” address to the Historical Society of New York, February 23, 1852. Source: Shewmaker, 130-137 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/dignity-history.html
Likewise the following which is attributed to Daniel Webster:
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end." (Tryon Edwards, “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern ,“1908. p. 49)
More by God's grace.
Right and wrong are scales. Good and evil are absolute. If you think I'm wrong about this just substitute the word "evil" every time someone does something wrong. That will get a quick response.
I thought Rush Limbaugh explained this very well one time. Liberals tend to think and argue in terms of right and wrong. Thus they can push their scale further along. You will NEVER get a liberal newscaster to say ISIS is evil. You can't even get the president to admit it. That is why, from time to time, you'll hear the president (and other liberals) say that ISIS (Iran, Cuba, etc.) has some legitimate complaints. They don't look at things in absolutes.
Conservatives (at least true conservatives) tend to think in terms of good and evil. There is no way we would accept ISIS as chopping off heads of Christians as a solution to having legitimate complaints. They are EVIL.
The problem with Christians today is few look at things around us as good and evil. We tend to view it as right and wrong. Thus there are a number of Christian homes accepting divorce, abortion, etc. It isn't much different then the Samaritan woman at the well telling Jesus what difference does it make where I worship God at? Hey, having six or seven husbands is OK just as well. It's the "I'm OK, Your OK" idea.
God deals in absolutes. There are very few shades of grey. There is no greater example of this then where someone is going to spend eternity. People who say God won't send someone to hell for eternity that don't know Jesus as their Lord and Savior are sadly mistaken.
Oh how right he was!
Romans 1:21 - ESV
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,
but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.