Good Guys and Bad Guys

Among the most powerful weapons an adversary can use is one of your own strengths that has been found to have a loophole or a flaw.  So it isn't surprising that liberals and atheists like to use our own passages of scripture in order to win arguments or advance their agendas.  One such passage of scripture goes something like this: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" or different variations of such.  There are also numerous other passages of scripture that tell us not to judge others - because by so doing, we become hypocrites.

Guess what?  I could safely say we're ALL hypocrites in one way or other.

But that's not the point.  I think it is important to judge... not for the sake of condemning another individual, but as an awareness of good and evil and as a protection against the evils of the world and against bad people.  

The crowd that has espoused so-called "moral relativism" would have us believe that there aren't good people or bad people, just people that make good decisions or poor decisions.  Well, I have some news to tell you: There are good people and there are bad people.

It's as simple as this: good people have good intentions and bad people have malicious intentions.

We all have things we struggle with.  Many of us struggle with some very bad things.  That does not make us necessarily bad people.  But there are people who want to harm or exploit others or take advantage of other people - murderers, rapists, abusers, pimps, thieves, illicit drug pushers, arsonists, warmongers, dictators, con-artists, pirates and so forth... these are some examples of bad people.  It's not a judgement.  People who do these things are bad.

 Most everybody else I would consider good people... or should I say not necessarily bad.  I think most people are inherently good people.  Most people have good intentions and would make good decisions and would want to help others if a situation arose where help was needed.

We need to know the difference between good and bad.  We need to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.  We need to recognize and acknowledge who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.  We need to recognize which behaviors are good and which are bad as well.  In our society where the lines are increasingly becoming blurred or where the fine line between good and bad has become a wider gray area, maybe it's tim to look at what is good and what is bad and delineate absolutely what is good (or what would bring us in a direction closer to God) and what is bad (that which is influenced by Satan).