There’s a fine line between good and evil. This line is straight and very clear. It isn’t fuzzy; it never changes. Many try to convince us otherwise. They like to think the line moves and bends, that sometimes it is not as clear as it seems. These are the people who are known as relativists. They are also people who have fallen for the lies of the devil.

I believed that line was movable and fell for the lies he fed me.

Lies like it is okay to stop on your way home from work and drink yourself into a stupor because you work hard. You don’t need to go to confession because God knows everything you do and He knows your sins so you don’t have to tell someone else. You don’t need to go to church because you work seven days a week and need to rest. It’s okay to have sexual relations with someone who isn’t your wife because you don’t get it from her. If sex is wrong God wouldn’t have made it feel so good. It’s okay to take money from your employer, after all, they don’t pay you enough, and besides it’s your father and he won’t mind.

These are the little things that make you cross the line between good and evil. They start out small, that’s how Satan gets you. He can justify all your actions by making you think they are right. He’ll tell you God thinks it’s okay, after all, God loves you and wants you to be happy.

The serpent told Eve it was okay to eat the forbidden fruit because it would open her eyes and make her like God. Gen 3:4-5. He does the same to us.

There is no gray area. Every action is either right or wrong there is no middle ground. There is no gray area. The line never changes, it never moves.

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version; Second Catholic Edition. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006), Ge 3:4–5.