Have We Gone A Bridge Too Far Behind Enemy Lines? An Alternate Garden of Eden

A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film, which tells the story of the failure of Operation Market Garden, during World War II, an Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands. The film takes its' name from an unconfirmed comment attributed to British Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, who tells Field Marshal Montgomery, "I think we may be going a bridge too far."  Going one bridge too far apparently left them far too deep inside enemy territory, leading to the ultimate failure of their mission.


In the Book of Genesis, we read the story of our first parents being presented with a test - a test which would ultimately decide whether or not mankind would submit themselves to the authority of their Creator God - or whether they would choose to be their own gods - their own arbiters of right and wrong. Adam and Eve's choice to be their own gods, created an alternate garden to the Garden of Eden - one filled with thorns and thistles and death. Mankind becoming his own arbiter of good and evil opened a veritable Pandora's Box upon the world. 



God had not really asked a whole heck of a lot of Adam and Eve - save for one solitary stipulation that they not eat of the "fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". The story is obviously not talking about literal trees and fruit, but the decision between submitting to the authority of God, or thinking that we are our own gods who can choose our own interpretation of right and wrong - good and evil. 


So here we are today in our alternate Garden of Evil, where it would seem that what is evil is called good, and what is good is called evil. Abortion is good - homosexual lifestyles are good - all manner and various forms of what was once considered immoral and depraved have been re-defined as good.  And anyone who seeks to submit themselves to the authority of God and His laws, are considered bad. 

But, just how far have we gone behind enemy lines, by being our own gods? And can we turn back?

Can we turn back when the union of two people of the same-sex can be considered a legalized married state - and two lesbian women can simply create a child through artificial insemination?  After all, once we've allowed these people to marry, adopt and create children through artificial means, how will we be able to turn around and say "you can't do that anymore? These alternative families are already out there - how do we change that?

Those of us in the pro-life movement have been fighting Roe v Wade for almost 40 years now, and yet today we have one of the most pro-abortion presidents to date since that infamous court decision was handed down. A president who will now force even religious institutions to provide for this slaughter through their insurance plans.

We have let so many dogs off the leash, that the dog catchers will never be able to get them all back.  We have given license to so many people's baser instincts, that we will never be able to convince them to simply turn around.  I mean, there really is a 'point of no return' in everything. 


I remember a song from my childhood, which was the title song to a movie about alcoholism, "The Days of Wine and Roses" - the lyrics of which, though only a 10 yr. old child, sent chills through me:  "The days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play - cross a meadowland and through an open door - a door marked  "NEVER MORE" that wasn't there before."

I believe we've already gone "one bridge too far" and have crossed through that door marked "Never More".    And only God can bring us back to the innocence which our first parents threw away. Till then we fight the good fight, but always remembering that we are NOT GOD - and the only way we can win back that innocence which our first parents lost for us, is to surrender ourselves once again to His Kingship over us.