RE: The Bible: A Moral book?!
April 13, 2012 at 7:25 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2012 at 7:34 am by Greatest I am.)
(April 12, 2012 at 6:47 pm)Drich Wrote: [
Sin is anything not in the expressed will of God.
Righteousness says it is never OK to lie.
Morality says it is OK to lie to save the life of your friends.
Scriptures are clear that God lies and causes others to lie.
Is he still righteous?
Or is he allowed to break his own commands?
Regards
DL
(April 12, 2012 at 7:20 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: The character "Jesus", for the most part, taught goodness. I agree with that. The book itself is full of retchedness and wickedness and downright evil, mostly perpetrated by the character called "God". That's how I see it.
Most of the 'goodness' taught by the Jesus character, however, is common to nearly all cultures. The Golden Rule is not of biblical origins.
For the most part his unworkable rhetoric was good rhetoric.
You say most part. What of when his preaching was not so good?
His divorce policy for one. Let no man put asunder would mean that a wife who gets beat twice a week would have to grin and bear it and never be able to seek a loving partner.
Regards
DL
(April 12, 2012 at 7:31 pm)Thomas Kelly Wrote:
I guess its both a moral and manual book.
Genocide is moral is it?
It is more moral to kill than to cure is it?
Regards
DL