RE: Where did Jesus get His morality from?
October 23, 2010 at 4:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2010 at 4:51 am by solja247.)
Quote:As to Socrates, again so what? do you think throwing him into the argument validates your godboy?
Two of the greatest men who have existed have zero evidence for their existence.
Quote:Jesus got his morality from the Torah with an added twist in that he preached people to observe the Torah not just outwardly, however in their hearts as well. He attacked fellow Jews who observed the law outwardly and thought were righteous with god.
The OT gives us a completely different picture, that God didnt want their sacrifices or their circumcission, but their hearts. I wouldnt say with a twist, Jesus took the torah and used the principles out of it.
Quote:By the way I dont think all of the moral values Jesus preached were good, for instance his command to turn the other cheek and his view that remarrying after divorce (unless the divorce occured because of adultery) is adultery.
I have thought about that myself. Perhaps as Jesus says your 'hearts were hard' could mean that in a perfect world, where women and men were treated right in a relationship and LOVED each other, adultery would be the only reason for divorce?
But maybe Im just reading too much into the text.
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer