(April 12, 2012 at 7:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 12, 2012 at 6:47 pm)Drich Wrote: Sin is anything not in the expressed will of God.We can not live a perfect life (without sin) so that means our best efforts will result in a moral life. Because the Righteous standard of God is found in the bible it is best to derive one's morality from God's perfect standard.Nice try, but the question is whether the bible is a moral book. If you say righteousness is the express will of God and that that expression takes the form of the bible, then you cannot use the bible itself to demonstrate its own morality. Are you saying that it's righteous because it says it is?
No, he is saying that the Bible is a book of moral standards because they came from the God who is righteous an will judge you by his righteousness. Righteousness is not the will of God, righteousness is who God is. The will of God is that you would live by his righteous standard.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
