It's Tuesday, January 27, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news

and events from a Christian worldview. Moral change seems to be one of the constants of the moral age.

As a matter of fact, changes in moral judgment are one of

the landmarks that separates the pre-modern age from the modern age, sometimes referred to as

modernity. What makes the modern, modern in so many ways, are radical shifts in thinking,

and one of the most important of those shifts, of course, has to do

with morality. Now, here, before we go any further, Christians need to understand a critical distinction,

and that's between morality in terms of how people actually behave in the moral codes of any

civilization or society at the time, and morality as objectively real and established by God.

Those are two different things. Now, of course, that means that our human responsibility

should be to align our own moral judgments with God's character, God's law, the Holy Scriptures.

But we do understand that in the world around us, increasingly, the people who

really have influence in the culture, they're committed to the idea that morality is relative,

that it changes, that what was a moral judgment in place, say, 100 years ago, has been

replaced with something else now. Now, here's the other thing

we need to know. The progressivist worldview, the basic liberal worldview in our society,

holds that there is an arc of progress that goes in only one direction. So just imagine you're at a

marker board, and you draw an arc, and it's from the past to the future, you put an arrow on the end of it.

And so far as the modern progressivist worldview is concerned, there is going to be a change of morality.

It's inevitable, and it is inevitably progressive.

So this is one of the reasons why you look at the way that progressivists look at history,

and what they see is the

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