In The Will Of Another

"In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes."

~ Judges 17:6 (NASB)

For a brief moment, my heart was racing to think, how free it is to be able to do anything, as an Israelite at that time. Then I began to see the grim implications of that. That would mean that no one is accountable to any higher authority. Everyone is uninhibited to do whatever they like, anyway they wish to, without bearing the responsibility of their actions or even considering what consequences they effectually result in.

A newspaper article was reporting about a suicide of a teenage girl who was pregnant, and apparently was helped by her boyfriend. It was mentioned that the boyfriend was acquitted of murdering his girlfriend but was found guilty of aiding a suicide and "inadvertently murdering the fetus during the commission of a felony". There is an appalling statement of reality that the newspaper reported. "The law makes it murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of abortion."

Apparently, in a great number of society in the world, it is not illegal to kill a fetus through some legal means. We can quickly spot the inconsistency of the law in this instance. While we can see the difference, we need to understand the underlying basis of what makes it legal in a particular scenario and not in the other. In the case of abortion, it is perceived as legal because the killing is done according to the will of the mother/guardian. We see that the law has been provisioned in such a way that a killing is justified not on the basis of rights or crimes of the one killed, but only on the basis of another person's will. This is rebellion against absolute truth of right and wrong and ultimately against God. This also expresses a very real illustration of subjectivism and relativism, 2 of the pillars of godlessness.

"When the will of man becomes the criterion of right and wrong, your life is only as precious as your enemy thinks it is."
~ "A Godward Life", John Piper