Our Divided Nation

 What is tearing this country apart is not merely politics. It is something far deeper, far older and far more consequential. We are witnessing a moral rupture.

What we are experiencing is not primarily a contest between parties or platforms. It is a conflict between moral authorities. One vision holds that moral truth is received- revealed by God and preserved in Holy Scripture- while the other increasingly treats moral truth as constructed, fluid and subject to cultural reinvention. The consequences of this divergence now dominate nearly every major debate in our public life: marriage, sexuality, the santity of human life, the definition of family, human nature and even truth itself.

The Bible warned us of this moment. "Who unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" the prophet Isaiah declared (5:20). This inversion is no longer theoretical; it is instituionalized. Long-standing moral boundaries are being erased and rewritten, while those who hold to historic Christian teaching are portrayed as dangerous, intolerant or unfit for civil society.

In 1858, standing before the Illinois Republican Convention, Abraham lincoln spoke words that still echo across American history: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Taken from The Sword of the Lord,  written by Mark Creech, Christian Post