(July 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm)Anymouse Wrote:
I would prefer we set our own standards. I give much greater respect to another who is moral and decent and kind because they want to be, rather than because a book told them to be or they will be punished. It is much more sincere.
And even Christendom, with all its members, cannot even agree on which version of the Bible is the correct "standard" to use, and none of them interprets that standard the same way. I much prefer a person who follows a standard of ethics or morals derived from within rather than one set down in Leviticus or Philemon.
James.
Without a standard for moral and decent who is to say who or what is moral and decent and how would you know that a person that acts moral and decent by their own standard does not have another agenda for their goal that is outside their so called standard.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.