(June 14, 2018 at 10:10 am)Drich Wrote:
(June 12, 2018 at 11:27 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: As an aside, I wonder how many different metaphors and similes the Bible used to express essentially the same idea: "Our team good; others bad".
not good or bad those are the devils terms.
The devil controls what is good or bad.
God seeks righteousness from us not 'morality.' Righteousness is a standard that never changes. what is righteous will always be righteous, even if pop morality deems what was one good, now bad.
for instance it is unrighteous to kill a child/baby
however it is not only moral to kill a baby by pop moral standards, it is immoral to tell a woman she can kill her baby. All anyone need do to justify a child's death is to rename it a "fetus" (latin for baby) and pop morality says you can kill as many as you like for something as trivial as a job or the baby interferes with life plans.. These foolish reason would never change the unrighteous death.. It was an unrighteous and and is an unrighteous act.
Again remember this is not morality standard where one must be punished for an immoral act. so there potential attonement for such an act. actually for all acts there can be atonement.
I'm not really sure what you saw that provoked all of that. 'Good' and 'bad' were not used in a moral sense ("pop" or otherwise). It concerned its use among those who think of themselves as part of the correct, winning in-group (the wheat as opposed to the chaff / the sheep vs. the goats, etc.). The Bible is loaded with precisely those sorts of in-group/out-group expressions (which I doubt you consider to be examples of disposable "pop" morality).
That really is all I was getting at.
