RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
September 19, 2022 at 3:04 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2022 at 3:10 am by Pat Mustard.)
(September 17, 2022 at 6:28 pm)h311inac311 Wrote:(September 17, 2022 at 4:35 pm)GUBU Wrote: I don't know, what is there in christianity stopping you from telling me that all these are morally good, given its human creation?
1. Well to be fair the Bible never condemns gambling but Solomon does warn against the danger of trying to get rich quick which is almost always what separates a gambler who's just having fun with his own money from someone who is wasting their life savings on craps.
2. Thou Shalt not Murder.
Our job is to live as Jesus lived and speak as Jesus spoke, we learn about who he was from the writings of the New Covenant.
Jesus didn't live for wealth, power, sex or even fame. In fact he avoided the multitudes, owned nothing, never had sex and made it his goal to show others that his power was a gift from the Holy Spirit and stated that others would come along and perform even greater feats than he did.
The cross; therefore; represents a man willing to die the most humiliating and painful death for his God, which (if we interpret the meaning of the term God within its relation to how men think) means that he was willing to make his entire body into a pure sacrifice for his ultimate moral virtue. From what I can; tell whatever a man describes as his god is his own understanding of what the best virtue is.
And it is the inspiration of this story, which was signed in blood, that keeps a Christian from embracing corruption.
On 1 you're just making shit up to justify your earlier bullshit. Bravo.
On 2, then why can we find many instances of god not just condoning murder but ordering and even committing it then? Your bible is no help to you here, boy, because we generally know what's in it.
One final thought, if you want to live as Jesus lived renounce all modern technology and convert to.ultra orthodox judaism. Until you do both, you're still bullshitting.
PS even according to the bible Yeshua didn't die for our sins, he just fell asleep for c. 36 hours to do so. And it even shows an earlier interpretation of the mythos where Yeshua was merely a preacher who thought he was righteous in the eyes of yhwh finding out his error. Why would one of the aspects of god shout "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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