What It Means

News reporters and interviewers always attempt to make their story the most popular, as I suppose they should. Sometimes, however, the point they are trying to make is not as valuable as it seems.

A reporter interviewed President George W. Bush in Africa a few days ago and asked him whether same-sex marriage conflicts with Christian values.

“I shouldn’t be taking a speck out of someone else’s eye when I have a log in my own,” Bush said last week. In an interview in Tanzania with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, the former president explained his comment further. “I meant it’s very important for people not to be overly critical of someone else until you’ve examined your own heart,” Bush told Karl. (ABC News)

Using the well-worn but barely understood words from Luke 6:37-41, President Bush side-stepped the issue as “good” politicians often do.

Does same-sex marriage conflict with Christian values? I suppose one can say that. What is more important to say is that it conflicts directly and completely with the Truth of God’s revealed Word. In speaking the humorous hyperbole in Luke’s Gospel account, Jesus was making it clear that hypocrisy and a condemning spirit rising from self-righteousness can never be a part of the life of a Believer.

Christ’s statement has nothing to do with forbidding or devaluing true spiritual discernment.

If the whole World should decide “something” is right, yet it conflicts with what God has said, the whole world is wrong. Period. Paragraph.