{"id":14841,"date":"2024-06-06T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jaredingle\/?p=14841"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:45:33","slug":"right-or-wrong-wrong-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jaredingle\/2024\/06\/right-or-wrong-wrong-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Right or Wrong? | Wrong Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Intuitively we are thinking things. Not only are we thinking things, we are right beings. What I mean is we want to be right, to live right. Right or wrong, we all have our definitions of right and wrong.<\/p>\n

JVI | Vernell Ingle on Mercy | Christpoint, Galena, KS | 01.24.24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course we all want to live in the right, even if we have to justify our version of right, even if our version of right is simply a lighter shade of a dark wrong.<\/p>\n

We know right and wrong quite naturally. It\u2019s innate. Didn\u2019t Eve and then Adam eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Something deep within our fallen nature now knows right and wrong.<\/p>\n

I was at a men\u2019s fellowship and the leader was going on about normal men\u2019s sins, or at least sins that we think only men do. He kept railing about the sin, of course making every man feel terribly shamed for ever doing it, ever. Finally some man questioned the leader about his own personal sins. He said proudly, \u201cOh I sin, just not that sin!\u201d<\/p>\n

We even develop ideas about what wrongs are more right to commit than other wrongs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the New Testament doesn\u2019t play by those rules.<\/p>\n

The real question in the New Testament centers around the flesh and the Spirit. One of the best Passages for this is Paul\u2019s teachings in Romans 7-8. Don\u2019t read chapter 7 without chapter 8.<\/p>\n

I know it sounds elementary, but over the years I\u2019ve been shocked by the amount of \u201cmature\u201d Christians who don\u2019t play by the NT rules.<\/p>\n

They are modern day Pharisees, living by endless lists of right or wrong.<\/p>\n