Rest and Reflect

“We practice deceit when we lead someone to believe a lie, even though we may be speaking true words.” — Jerry White

“who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
who winks with his eye,
signals with his feet
and motions with his fingers,
who plots evil with deceit in his heart…”
(Proverbs 6:12-14)

Can be done “through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.” — Sissela Bok

…a lack of any direct condemnation of actions is no indication of the rightness of the deeds performed

God would “never [allow His children to be] brought into such a position that yielding to evil becomes a matter of necessity.” — Ellen G White on 1 Corinthians 10:13

We attempt to project what would happen, if… and then we make decisions based on these speculations… but, “can we calculate the eternal results or the rightness of our actions? We cannot predict even the next five minutes, much less the future.” — Erwin Lutzer

“Christ’s ambassadors have nothing to do with consequences. They must perform their duty and leave the results with God… We are not to ask whether we can see that harm will result from it, but whether it is in keeping with the [righteous] will of God.” — Ellen G White

We must make all moral decisions, not out of fear for the future, but by faith in the Father!

Rahab is not our ethical example. That status must forever be reserved for our sinless Saviour. Indeed, believers “must live as Jesus lived.” (1 John 2:6)

http://dialogue.adventist.org/articles/13_2_preez_e.htm

http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/v14n01/01.01.html [abridged version]

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Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance.