God’s Moral Code

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man, and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:22-24

It wasn't wrong for Adam and Eve to be naked until after the fall. 

Is God a moral relativist? “I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.” (Romans 7:7-9). God isn’t a moral relativist, he doesn’t adjust morality based on human actions. When the environment around mankind changed, sin sprang into life and seized the opportunity. While mankind had full dominion over the universe, he was clothed in the mantle of God’s righteous authority (e.g. Revelation 3:18, 7:9, etc.). When mankind surrendered dominion over the earth to Satan, God’s covering lifted from the earth and mankind became naked. Man’s nakedness became a sin when the earth’s environment changed. By some mechanism, what wasn’t wrong became wrong not because the moral code changed but because the environment changed.

It wasn’t ok to eat meat until after the flood.

Again, morality doesn’t change. When the environment of the world changed as a result of sin, the application of the moral code changes. The command to eat of the fruit of the trees and be filled (Genesis 2:16) remained, but the application of that command changed when the environment changed and the fruit alone no longer filled him. The overarching command to eat remained as the environment changed. Your task is not to make your own moral code but to determine what God’s universal moral code is and how it applies to the environment you are in.

Morality comes from God’s voice. 

It wasn’t wrong to eat from the tree of knowledge until God said so. Being naked became wrong without God saying so. Morality comes from God’s edicts as God’s moral code covers His people. Lawlessness is both acting in contrast to God’s moral code and removing His covering from your life. Nakedness became wrong by removing God’s covering. “But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” (John 4:16-17). Moral living is not doing what is wrong and actively doing what is good. Just avoiding evil isn’t moral living; you must actively do good.

Throw it away in the trash can, not the toilet. 

Just because you can eat something doesn’t mean you should. It is better to throw bad food away rather than eat it and throw it away after it goes through your digestive system. Morality (right and wrong) comes from filling yourself with good food and avoiding bad food (spiritual and physical). The more you fill yourself with God’s moral code, the less you have to decipher right from wrong on your own system. Let God cover you with His moral code and actively live in it.