Unbiased…Is Anyone Really?
Once again we are at a time in our history when the importance of picking one person is believed to either make or break the future. The latest Supreme Court Justice nominee is being questioned and scrutinized and as I watch, I ask myself, “Is anyone unbiased?”
Really?
Maybe another question that needs to be asked:
Should we really be unbiased?
Can anyone truly say they don’t know where they are on social issues that plague the water cooler with stigmatized debates? Is that really someone you want to make important decisions?
If you haven’t made up your mind on issues and try to be unbiased, are you weak, easily swayed by the person with the fanciest, fast-talking speech?
Or is that a strength?
I have often been told that if you don’t stand for something you will fall to anything.
So is being biased actually a good thing?
As a believer in Christ with reverence of the Holy Word, should Christians be unbiased?
Another question to ask:
Was Christ unbiased?
After looking through the Word, I don’t see Christ as being unbiased. He knew what was right. He knew what was wrong. He pointed out when people were wrong. He didn’t wait and listen to their reasons for their decisions. He called them out. He didn’t sugar coat his judgement. He didn’t say, “Well, it’s okay because you made a good point.”
He held firm to the notion that sin was wrong. Sin separates us from a close relationship with God. He was biased to always following God.
Wrong is always wrong, no matter how you try to spin it.
The thing with the world we are living in now is that we can criticize the Democrats with their questioning, but the Republicans would be doing it right now under a Democrat President if the roles were reversed.
Each side has their political ideology that they revere. Whether liberal or conservative, neither side is unbiased. They each have predetermined answers to every question. And depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, you answer the way the party leans.
Some may think everything in life is up for interpretation. In law one attorney can read something one way and another attorney can read the same law and get a completely different finding. Jurors listen to cases and they side with whatever attorney made the best points.
But the best points do not always mean right.
Many people think Christianity is arrogant, judgemental, separative by saying only Christians will go to Heaven when they die. There are some Christians who counter that idea because it sounds too harsh and a loving God wouldn’t allow that.
We can’t be unbiased on this idea. No where in Scripture does it mention that every person will go to Heaven. No where does it say that if your a good person, Peter will welcome you at the pearly gates. No where does it say that God is love and welcomes everyone, even those that rejected Him on earth.
It never says that.
Jesus constantly tells his followers that He is the way to God. That Hell is real. That it’s a cruel place that is Godless.
We either have to be biased on everything Jesus and the Bible says, or be unbiased to whatever sounds best.
The Bible is adamant on lukewarm faith. It said that people like this God would rather spit out. When we remain unbiased that doesn’t please God. It is something He despises.
But if you want to continue your unbiased ideas of what you think a loving God should do then that becomes your biases.
Just because we think God should do something, doesn’t mean it’s right.
I have a hard time hearing people say God is wrong. I have even a harder time reconciling myself when I think these thoughts. It’s then that I quickly have to refocus my thoughts and search for truth. Not the truth that I want to find, but the truth that is unhidden in the Word.
Seek and you shall find.
Just because we try to be unbiased, doesn’t mean we will stay unbiased because once we make a decision our unbiased point of view becomes a biased point of view.
So are we really unbiased?
Once you answer that question, you’ve already edged into the biased arena.
Just something to ponder.
What’s your opinion?
