How would you define \u2018goodness\u2019 or \u2018the good life\u2019? French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined happiness as \u2018a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion\u2019. <\/p>\n
Some would say the good life is physical.<\/i> They think it doesn\u2019t get any better than a long soak in a hot bath, a back rub, and a drink at the pub. Others would say the good life is material.<\/i> They think if you have the mansion, the Mercedes, and the money, you\u2019re living the good life. But goodness isn\u2019t about feeling good, looking good, or having goods. It\u2019s about being<\/i> good and doing<\/i> good. <\/p>\n
And just like we need a clock to tell time and a ruler to measure distance, we need a universal standard for determining goodness. And we have one. God! \u2018Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He instructs sinners in His ways.\u2019<\/i> Without a universally accepted standard for goodness, it becomes a grey area, a matter of opinion. <\/p>\n
Hitler thought annihilating the Jewish race was \u2018a good thing\u2019. Suicide bombers think killing innocent human beings is \u2018a good thing\u2019. And such thinking can\u2019t be countered with a simple, \u2018That\u2019s not<\/i> good.\u2019 What\u2019s to keep a Hitler or a suicide bomber from saying, \u2018That\u2019s just your<\/i> opinion\u2019? The word \u2018good\u2019<\/i> stems from an old English word with the same connotation as God. It literally means \u2018to be like God\u2019. Goodbye<\/i> is the shortened phrase \u2018God be with ye\u2019. So, the universal standard for goodness can only be decided by one who is universally good, and that One can only be God. Think about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How would you define \u2018goodness\u2019 or \u2018the good life\u2019? French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined happiness as \u2018a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion\u2019. Some would say the good life is physical. They think it doesn\u2019t get any better than a long soak in a hot bath, a back rub, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}