I Hate Moralism

Yesterday, Sarah and I were driving back to Dallas and we saw a black billboard saying:

If you must curse, use your own name. -God

I expressed a large measure of disgust at that billboard. Sarah asked me if there was any possible way I could find any good in it. I said, “No, its impossible.” I hated that billboard because I hate pseudo-Christian moralism. If a Christian were to have one opportunity to post a sign on a highway in which thousands of people travel in one week, invoking the Law alone should not even remotely come to mind. Our culture craves to be justified by works.  Pseudo-Christian moralism says, “If only they take out ‘God’ before they say ‘damnit,’ give to anti-abortion causes, and vote Republican…then God is pleased and sin is atoned for. The Church has allied themselves with these moralists. Let the world hate us for saying that Jesus is the only way to salvation; that trusting in His work is the only means….but God forbid we ever be known as moralists!

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. -Rom. 3:20

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. -Rom. 8:2-4