On Moral Authorities

[theologian]

Which arguments do you regard to be sound? We won't discuss them here, but I'd like to know your context please.

The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas

But, Being, and Truth and Goodness are one and the same reality, those are just viewed in different ways : Being is Being in Itself, Truth is just Being viewed in Intellect, and Goodness is just Being viewed in the will.

Why does it have to be Truth and Goodness? Why not Lies and Badness?

Because truth is the state of mind in accordance with being or reality while lies are the opposite. And because everything that must be truly good, must be true, and everything that is true must be real, and badness is always in contrary with being. Hence Truth and Goodness instead of Lies and Badness.

So, since cheating and lying are against truth, and God is Truth Himself; lying and cheating is against God; and that God is the end of man, and the morality of man is based on the end of him, it follows that lying and cheating are bad.

How does all of this fare with the Old Testament? Is God really all that you say if he once upon a time commanded to kill and rape?

The Old Testament must be understood in light of Christ. It teaches about justice and can be used in spirituality like fighting one's sins like how God's people must eradicate not some, but all of the opponent and so all and not some sins may be eradicated. Without Christ and the teaching of the Church, one cannot conclude rightly from the Old Testament. That is not an old problem. A heretic named Marcion in times of first Christians had denied the Old Testament by understanding it incorrectly, by, like the modern atheists, conclude God of the Old Testament is evil, which is again incorrect, for it didn't consider Christ and His Church which is the completion of God's revelation.