What lesson can we learn from Morianton?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Foregoing trends are further accelerated by the fashionable nonjudgmentalism which excuses whatever wrong individuals do—as long as they do anything else commendable. … Violators of the seventh commandment may still make useful contributions, but they pay a hidden, personal cost. … Apparently a fair, no-respecter-of-persons leader, Morianton did not respect himself! His self-inflicted wounds were masked by the outward ornamentation of riches and buildings … .

“The revelations tell us that commensurate with their own sins, unrepentant sinners must suffer even as [Jesus] did for ours, as they one day personally experience the full justice of God” (Maxwell, “Seventh Commandment,” 80).

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