The Flood Nobody's Talking About
When Society Decides God's Law is Just a Temporary Suggestion
You’ve watched the world change. Not gradually, the way seasons change, where you barely notice the shift until one morning you realize the leaves are gone. This has been something faster and stranger than that. Things that were unthinkable a generation ago are now unremarkable. Lines that seemed permanent have moved so far they’re no longer visible. And somewhere underneath the daily noise of it, most thoughtful people are carrying a low-grade bewilderment, a sense that something foundational has given way and nobody can quite agree on what it was.
Here’s the question I want to put on the table. Is any of this connected to what the church has been teaching?
That’s not a rhetorical jab. It’s a genuine diagnostic question, and it deserves a serious answer rather than a defensive one. Because there is a teaching that has moved through Christian circles for a long time now, often with good intentions behind it, that goes something like this: the law of God was given to the Jewish people, it served its purpose for that era, and with the coming of Christ it passed away. We’re not under law anymore. We’re under grace.
Now, there is a real truth buried in that somewhere. There is a category of law, the ceremonial system, the sacrificial apparatus, the rituals that pointed forward to a fulfillment, that found that fulfillment in Christ. The shadows gave way to the substance they were always pointing toward, and nobody who understands typology would argue otherwise. But that is not the law this teaching is dismissing. The teaching we’re examining dismisses the moral law, the foundational expression of God’s own character, as a relic of a previous arrangement that no longer binds anyone.
And here’s where I want you to think carefully rather than react quickly. Every society operates according to some standard of right and wrong. Every culture draws lines somewhere even when those lines keep moving. The question was never whether you’ll have a standard. The question is always whose standard it will be and what authority it carries. When the people who are supposed to carry the light of God’s revealed standard into the world start teaching that standard has been retired, something moves into that space. It always does. You don’t get a neutral result from a vacuum in the moral order. You get whatever is already waiting at the edges.
Romans 1 traces this with the kind of precision that should stop a careful reader cold. When truth is suppressed, when what God has revealed is exchanged for what people prefer, the result isn’t a polite disagreement about values. It’s a cascade. Each step produces conditions that make the next step easier, until what once provoked outrage becomes ordinary and what once was ordinary becomes the object of contempt. That progression isn’t a modern invention. It’s the predictable result of a specific cause that Paul identified two thousand years ago.
But here’s where I want to be honest about something, because it would be too easy to let this become only a cultural commentary. The easier move is to look outward at what lawlessness is doing to the world around us. The harder and more honest move is to look inward and ask what the abolishment teaching has done to the person who absorbed it, maybe without even knowing they absorbed it.
Because here’s what that teaching actually produces in the individual. Not freedom. A subtly lowered standard that feels like freedom for a while, until something in the person notices that their character isn’t sharpening the way it should. The edges keep softening. The sense of what God actually requires keeps accommodating itself to what’s comfortable. And a question starts forming underneath everything else, usually in the quiet hours: am I actually being transformed, or have I just been given permission to stay mostly the same?
The law of God is not the enemy of the gospel. It is the standard the gospel restores us to. Remove the standard and you haven’t liberated the believer. You’ve removed the instrument by which the Holy Spirit identifies what still needs to change.
Here’s what I find myself sitting with though. And maybe you’ll find yourself sitting with it too. We tend to measure obedience almost entirely by what’s absent. What we haven’t done. What lines we haven’t crossed. What’s not on our record. And there’s a kind of quiet confidence that comes from a relatively clean ledger. But I wonder sometimes whether that ledger is the only one being kept. Whether the accounting of a life before God is more comprehensive than most of us have been led to believe.
What would it mean if the standard reached not just to what we do, but to what we don’t do? Not just to the lines we cross, but to the good we never get around to producing?
That’s worth thinking about slowly.
Focus Verse: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” — Matthew 5:17 (NKJV)
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