(January 6, 2016 at 11:54 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 1:21 pm)robvalue Wrote: This is a question for anyone who thinks morality "comes from God".Are you asking me how I would act if there were no consequences in the afterlife for breaking God's law? Or are you asking me if there was no God and no afterlife would I continue to follow a morality from a god I knew didn't exist?
If you knew there was no afterlife, that you're dead and gone no matter what happens in this life, would you continue to follow "morality from God"? Or would you then ignore it, and decide for yourself how to act?
Thanks
I'll answer that. If there is a God and he will exact neither reward nor punishment in this life or after this life, would it matter to you if you broke God's law? Would your answer change if you found God's law personally morally repugnant?
Heck, while we're at it, supposing you found God's law morally repugnant and there was a punishment for failing to follow it, and eternal life if you did follow it, would you follow it? Make it really morally regugnant, like that you must kill your only son in a particularly horrible way.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.