RE: Christian Self-censorship of Dirty Words
October 19, 2016 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2016 at 11:55 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(October 19, 2016 at 10:58 am)Faith No More Wrote:(October 18, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: That will be taken into account as well. Like I said, it's about what's in our hearts. If someone who is legitimately insane, for example, blacks out and hurts someone, it doesn't necessarily mean they are bad people.
But it's not even about sane vs. insane. Some people just have more developed frontal lobes and are able to control their impulses better, but that doesn't mean the ones who aren't rise to the level of insanity. My question is, why would god create this objective moral standard for us to live up to and then give one person better tools than another to live up to that standard?
And that still doesn't address how "who you are in your heart" wasn't created by god. Did god not create everything?
Sane vs insane was an extreme example to explain what I meant. And that is that having a better ability vs a lesser ability (for whatever reason) to turn down temptation is taken into account when measuring someone's character. But this does not change natural law (objective morality). I'm not sure if God "creating" natural law is necessarily the best way to put it. Natural law is simply in accordance with God's nature. God is good and God is love. Love can't be hate. God couldn't have "created" a world where natural law said that murder is moral, for example.
Also, I wouldn't say God specifically/purposely created people to have more difficulty vs less difficulty with any particular thing. He simply allows nature to take its coarse. It's in our genetics to be better at some things and worse at other things, to have our strengths and to have our weaknesses. God isn't around micromanaging the type of people we are born as and what goes on inside the womb when DNA is coming together to create a new person.
When I say "who we are in our hearts" I'm basically just talking about what type of person someone is - whether a good person or a bad person (to put it simply).
That is measured based on the choices we make.... combined with our ability to make those choices, our knowledge, our intent, what is going on in our minds when we make them, etc. That's why I keep using the extreme example of an insane person. They may have done something really bad but if they were literally out of their minds and blacked out when they did it, it doesn't necessarily mean they are bad people.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh