The modern mood enjoys novels and plays where the rights and wrongs get confused, where every decision is a mixture of right and wrong, truth and error, where heroes and antiheroes reverse their roles. Why this infatuation with ambiguity? It is regarded as more mature. Clear-cut answers are written off as immature. The pluralism of our age delights in moral ambiguity - but only as long as it costs nothing. Devotion to contemporary moral ambiguity is extraordinarily self-centered. It demands freedom from God so that it can do whatever it wants. But when the suffering starts, the same self-centered focus on MY world and MY interests, rather ironically, wants God to provide answers of sparkling clarity.-D.A. Carson, from How Long O Lord - Reflections on Suffering and Evil, page 154.
Certainly we can't say that this is no moral ambiguity at all in the universe. I'm sure Dr. Carson would grant this, but where God has revealed his will in his Word we do well to seek the blessing of obedience.
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