Woe to those who call evil good: A warning for our time

When you go to university, you would hope that you would be getting the best of the best. You have paid a lot of money to get educated, so you want professors who are going to inspire you to learn your chosen subject. You want a professor to look up to and, hopefully, maybe one day be like. After all, it is a good ambition.

But it was really sad to read the headline on All Israel News: Norwegian university professor calls Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre 'most beautiful thing this century.'

What? Are you serious?

This is a university professor. He is educated. He seems to have more qualifications than sense. He is the best of the best as far as education is concerned. But who on earth would think that what Hamas did on October the 7th was a “most beautiful thing”?

Everyone has seen the many videos. Hamas documented their crime very well. We were horrified when we saw the policeman go into the Nova Festival, shouting, “Is anyone alive?” and seeing on camera the dead bodies—many of them young people.

We have been horrified to hear about the killing of children on that fateful day.
The rape of women is sickening to any human being.
The young Palestinian boy called his family telling them he had killed Jews.

This is what he is calling a beautiful thing. Can you believe that?

This man should be removed from his position of authority and never be allowed to be near young minds again.
If you think that rape is OK, you are sick.
If you think that kidnapping is OK, then you are sick.
If you think that executing Ariel Bibas, who was 4 years old, and Kfir, who was 9 months old, is a beautiful thing, then you are sick.
It is as simple as that.

Let’s make it more personal. How would this evil professor like it if someone came to his house, raped his wife, and murdered his kids, and then ran up and down the street saying it was a beautiful thing? I think he would be livid and demand justice from the local authorities for this heinous and evil crime.

The Bible says, “Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.” Why do we have people in our society who call evil good?

It is a warning in the book of Isaiah that our minds can become so twisted that we think that good is evil and evil good. We have lost our moral standard. People do what is right in their own eyes rather than take on what God says about a situation. God’s ways are not man’s ways.

This university professor proves that we have sadly lost our way. He is not the only one. After October the 7th, we witnessed people tearing down posters of hostages. They were posters of Jews who had been kidnapped and taken into tunnels in Gaza, and yet some people in society were offended by posters about kidnapped Jews.

Their actions were evil.

Woe to you who call good evil and evil good.

Today we live in that sort of society, where we have misshaped minds.
The world is a wicked and evil place.

But there is hope, and I believe it is the key to successful Christian living.

In Romans 12:2: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

I pray for this professor who glorifies in killing, that he is transformed by the love of Christ and transformed in his mind and thinking.