(March 1, 2016 at 3:49 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(February 29, 2016 at 8:39 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you are referring to when God literally talks to people in the Old Testament, I don't believe that ever happened. I believe Jesus is God, and I believe in what He taught us about morality - doing good for others as we want them to do for us, loving others as ourselves, and forgiving our enemies, etc. I believe that is the basis for all morality
::bold mine:: CL, I think you've just demonstrated that your morality is subjective without even realizing it in the paragraph above. You have interpreted the scripture in a fashion that feels right to you. Because there is no unchallenged consensus amongst Christians on how to interpret the OT, the individual is left ultimately responsible for drawing their own conclusions (and boy, don't so many things get lost in translation?). Completely subjective.
To play devil's advocate here (snerk), CL never said that everyone has the same moral sense. She believes there are "right" morals out there somewhere which people might, if they try, discover.
This isn't that different than anything else in life. Your perception of my desk might be subtly (or even quite) different than mine. However, we might both believe there is probably something unerlying our perceptions which is objectively real.
Even without regard to whether God exists, I can see how this might be the case. If we see instincts not as possessions of a person, but rather see a person as an expression of genetic material, then those behaviors which best express the tendencies (I avoid saying intent or purpose) of the DNA could be objective.
