There are many problems with it, but here’s another problem with redefining marriage – as Cardinal O’Brien has rightly commented it redefines reality. Here’s why. We need a standard of truth to define reality, without it we are left to wallow in a sea of relativism. The book title by Greg Koukl (Stand to Reason) & Francis Beckwith ‘Relativism:Feet firmly planted in mid-air‘ sums it up perfectly.
Today I read in The Independent online an article by The Rev Richard Coles in which he says concerning Gay Marriage that it’s an ‘Emerging Truth’. I can understand how truth can be slowly revealed – indeed the revelation from God through the Bible came in this way – but the Reverend Coles doesn’t mean that.
He means it’s a truth that is emerging out of a consensus. In which case it isn’t truth. For one thing it would deny previous truth on marriage from the Bible. And for another it would deny a previous ‘popular’ consensus. And whose to say, given how fickle society can be, that it will most likely change again.
Sorry Reverend it’s a consensus I do not follow. I get truth from the Bible, the Reverend Coles should try doing that himself.
Bold!
But not stupid I trust.
No not stupid =)