A slogan that has been heard a lot recently is “To ignore evil is to be an accomplice to it”. This is in particular response to an incident that happened over 4000 miles away from the UK where a white policeman killed a black man who he was detaining as a suspect. Also presumably referring to similar instances where people have been unnecessarily killed intentionally or unintentionally as the result of the actions of others. Killing others is no doubt evil as it is discriminating against people because they are different and you don’t like them because of your prejudice. This also obviously applies if we don’t challenge this behaviour and we are therefore in effect an accomplice to this evil.
But what about other ways in which we can be an accomplice to evil? What is evil? This is something that has not been considered by many of these who have taken up this slogan. This is because in their opinion there is no God and therefore they personally make up their minds some action, word or thought is evil. In certain societies of the past killing someone and then eating them was thought to be acceptable and certainly not “evil”. It’s called situational ethics what is bad for you may not be bad for me. We make up our own minds. Is killing babies in the womb evil? It could be argued as seems to be the case that this is not evil because the greater evil would be to let the “Mother” (who doesn’t want to be a mother) struggle through the dangers of a pregnancy she doesn’t want and then struggle financially and socially because of the burden of bringing up a child she does not want (although there are an awful lot of couples who want to adopt and solve that problem). This is apparently the lesser evil – deliberately killing a baby which is not apparently considered to be human until he or she is born. So it is alright to deliberately kill babies (9 million lives lost in the UK in 50 years) but when a 46 year old man gets killed 4000 miles away it is such an evil that we need protest by assaulting policemen, whipping up hatred against anyone who does not protest, deface and throw statues in the river and deface war memorials on a day when we are remembering those who gave their lives for freedom (D-day 6th June).
Is there something wrong here? Yes because the Bible (which despite what many of these protesters think is most definitely the word of the living God) says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). The truth is we are all wicked and evil as can be and that is why George Floyd was killed , why millions of babies are killed, why millions of others have been killed and why many of these protesters would also be killing others they don’t like if they could get away with it (have to make do with statues instead).
The solution – Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6) so that evil, wicked, sinners like you and me could be saved. Repent now, trust in the Lord Jesus Christ in which you can be delivered from the bitterness and wickedness that is gnawing away and destroying you and you will be saved and have everlasting life in heaven.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
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