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Paul W Primavera on April 10, 2022

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Moral Relativism or Objective Truth?

This morning's OT reading is an excerpt from Isaiah chapter 50, but having read the entirety of the chapter, I came across the last two verses - ten and eleven - which soundly refute the modernist philosophy of "I'm ok, you're ok," and "what's true for me may not be true to you." I checked the Latin Vulgate and four different English translations, three Protestant and one Catholic, to ensure my understanding was correct. The gist of these verses is this: even if everything around you is dark right now, as long as you hope in God's name and rest on Him, it'll be ok. But if you make your own torch to light the way, you will rest in sorrow.

10 Quis ex vobis timet Dominum,

audiens vocem servi sui?

Qui ambulavit in tenebris,

et non est lumen ei,

speret in nomine Domini

et innitatur super Deum suum.

11 Ecce vos omnes, qui accenditis ignem,

accincti sagittis,

ambulate in lumine ignis vestri

et in sagittis, quas succendistis.

De manu mea factum est hoc vobis;

in doloribus recumbetis.