What is right and what is wrong?

Sometimes people ask: who decides what is right and what is wrong? Is it I? Is it my superior(s)? Is it the society at large? Or is it the particular society to which I may belong by choice or by birth? Is it the nation that tells me what to do and what not to do? The answers would be as varied as there are individuals with different back grounds and affiliations. One way whereby we could get a consensus of sorts would be to look at human nature as it is commonly understood ( there are some who would deny any static nature).

Human nature commonly understood refers to every human being along with a common understanding or perception that is beyond any rationalizing. It is imbedded deep down in the consciousness of every human being. The believer considers this to be the doing of God himself as the creator of the human being. Some thinkers have opined that what ennobles my human nature what makes me more a human being is what is right; on the contrary what somehow degrades me and destroys my human nature, demeans my choices either by coercion or ignoble motives and constitute what is wrong.

In the history of Salvation, God had made a covenant with his chosen people a covenant made with the blood of animals and written down on tablets of stone on Mt. Sinai but it was a covenant that was broken again and again. The leader through whom this covenant was made between God and his chosen people was Moses, a chosen human being. The commandments were not obeyed.  God tried various means of putting some sense into his people so that they might obey his commands and be at peace with themselves, with environment and God. He even threatened them with punishment but all these did not work. They sinned again and again. So God promised that in future it would be written not on stone but on the heart of human beings. This is precisely what happened when Jesus the God-Man united in himself God and man and made all human being for ever obedient to God. Human nature is for ever ennobled in this one person Jesus Christ. So in him and through him becomes manifest what is right and what is wrong. To sow and reap with him is to do the right thing and to be at loggerheads with him is to be in the wrong.