The Standard of Morality

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” Proverbs 14:34

When in doubt about the future, it is sometimes best to return to your roots. As America searches for the correct balance between social ethics and religion, the discerning words of our first president, George Washington, provide an interesting context: “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education of minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

The religion Washington referred to is Christianity, and the principle he alluded to is the truth of the Bible demonstrated in the life of the believer. If the epidemic of moral, political, and social corruption in our country is to be reversed, we must embrace the authority of the Bible and its relevance for personal and national morality.

The Bible is God’s revealed truth for men and the nations they govern. Read, understood, and applied, it is the standard for healthy morality of persons, corporations, and countries. Morality has no compass apart from the Bible and no rudder apart from the personal example of the Christian.

“...This great nation was founded not...on religion but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” -Patrick Henry