Christiansought to have an acute sense of right and wrong. It stands true that many arelosing this outlook on life; after all, this is the age of tolerance. Lately wehave been taught that there are no absolutes, that our truth is not really the real truth, and therefore we have to beconstantly seeking for the other persons truth. A whole generation ofindifferent, watered-down Christians has arisen with no deep convictions aboutanything except the accepted norm that you should have no convictions. Igrew up under a different set of values. I was shown, from the Bible, thatthere were certain things that were clearly right and others that were equallywrong. I learned that this applied to attitudes, as well: some were commandedwhile others were condemned. Often learning through painful experience, furthermore,I saw that the Bible was silent about some things. In these cases right andwrong had to be discerned through an interpretation of time and cultural context,as well as ones testimony, rather than obtained from direct propositions.These rights and wrongs were also important, but, being subjectivelyasserted, they had less weight than the objective directives of the Bible. Someroom had to be left for a constant and charitable examination of the otherpersons point of view. I also learned the difference between descriptivehistorical passages and prescriptive doctrinal exhortations. Thus, I was keptfrom the many religious pitfalls that I saw displayed in the lives of severalstrange people who God allowed to cross my path. Thissense of right and wrong leads one to a keen perception and love of justice. Itshould be natural, in a Christians life, that he or she would reflect asclosely as his sanctification allows, Gods justice and holiness. It issignificant that one of the marks of the ungodly or of the apostate, is thatthey are unfaithful in their contracts (Rom 1.31covenant-breakers, KJV). So, Christians should be faithful in theirdealings. They should keep their word, hating lies and loving truth. Theyshould refuse to watch and accept, with quietness and modern life asepsis, themistreating, bartering, slaughtering of the young or helpless, wherever it mayoccur, whether in the streets of New York, in the hills of Bosnia, in thedeep jungle of Burundi, or in the Middle East, under the cruelty of Islamic radicals. They should strive to be examples and promoters ofjustice with their actions and words, without any trace of pride, but based onthe fact that we are all servants of the Almighty God of Justice. Perhaps thisis why we are called contenders for the faith (Jude 3), meaning that we areengaged in a constant battle where evil tries to establish itself as thestandard of conduct, contrary to Gods ways. We should never allow, in theareas placed under our responsibilities, that the situation described in Isaiah5.20 should reoccur, but rather cry alongside with the prophet denouncing thosewho: call evil, good; darkness, light; and sweetness, bitterness. Weare called to display these convictions, and to defend right against wrong, onmany fronts: in our school, in our work and even in our church andecclesiastical fellowships. But, perhaps, in no other place is this task asdifficult to perform as in