(March 29, 2018 at 3:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I doubt that's a faithful translation of the laws of god..but who cares? I wouldn't follow the laws of god for their own sake anyway..because I have moral sense. You could only be hoping to suggest to me..here..in this, that god's laws are in accord with my moral sense.
Yes, that wouldn't be a coincidence, or is it?
What some people say is that our moral sense has nothing to do with the conscience that God has given humans, but that they developed it by themselves, by copying the animals or whatever, but what they don't explain is that the moral sense is the same regardless of era, culture etc.
This can be explained by the idea that we all have a common ancestry, but that smells of Adam and Eve,
so let's make up something else...
I know - deny that we all have the same code, and make up things like cultural differences, especially a radical example like an extremist group...
I did touch on the physical reasons for the moral code before, which would explain the uniformity and need for it, such as the law against murder - which is supposed to guard life itself.
The law against stealing protects the quality of life, and so forth, these are physical realities, governed by the facts of living.