Who will be in charge?
Give me a minute to explain.
“Who is the number one god?” In the 1996 movie The Island of Dr. Moreau, the beast people revolt against the godlike scientist, taking over the island. In fits of rage, the beast people, once controlled by electric shocks, now rule. Done with Dr. Moreau’s tyrannical law, the beast people are now left to consider the question, “Who is the number one god?”
If Moreau’s law is gone, the beasts could now make their own; but which beast would decide? If one concludes that there is no law outside of humanity, then power wins. If power wins, then Mao Zedong, China’s 20th century tyrant, murderer of many more millions than Hitler, was right:
Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.
Ponder the implications of unrestrained human power if humans are left to decide what laws to obey.
Thanks for spending this minute with me, Dr. Mark Eckel.
Mark Eckel (MA English, ThM Old Testament, PhD Social Science Research) is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration, Liberty University.
“Give Me a Minute” is an ongoing effort to simply, clearly, and quickly explain aspects of true Truth.
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