Our environment makes us act unlawfully. There are no absolutes, so no such thing as right and wrong? University of Cambridge researchers don’t agree. Their study found that teens who avoided crime did so because they saw it as “wrong”, but that teens with little sense of right and wrong were responsible for most juvenile crimes. Professor Per-Olof Wikstrom, the professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at Cambridge who led the study observed, “The idea that opportunity makes the thief, that certain environments are conducive to crime, runs counter to our findings.” The Bible warns “be not deceived…whatever a man sows that he shall also reap.” And Solomon, the word’s wisest man advised, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. “ As juvenile crime increases, surely it’s time to get back to the Bible, back to teaching our youth we can’t do wrong and get away with it.

Pastor Alex Rockwell