(April 24, 2015 at 7:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: So we have Moses, bringing "his people" from Egypt to Mt. Sinai where Jehova gives him the ten commandments...
And one of them is simply "you shall not murder", but... but... what did god do with all the plagues he sent down on Egypt, particularly the one with all the firstborns, if not murdering?
What sort of moral authority does such a being have to tell his "children" not to murder when that's exactly what he did a couple of pages back?!
The command is you shall not murder.
The law is not about taking human life. (as you point out God authorizes the taking of life in several places) The commands tell us we shall not take a human life unless authorized.
Atheist 'morality'= The law of morals is the standard in which we should all live, the bench mark in which all right and wrong are measured.. The greatest sin/crime? Causing harm to one another.
The Righteousness of God= our act in of themselves hold no moral value. What makes an act good or evil is what God says about that given act in a given circumstance. This makes God the bench mark, the alpha and Omega. no standard nor value is above Him.
So the command you shall not murder means you shall not take life unless order or authorized to do so.
