(September 7, 2023 at 8:30 pm)Nanny Wrote: All - Thanks again for the great responses. You lot are a bunch of smart people.
I would be interested in a theist's opinion on this but prob mot in this subforum. Particularly how to differentiate absolute morality from cultural morality, given that a church is a culture.
Thump - Aren't we saying the same thing?
I used to be a theist, maybe I can offer a little of how I used to think:
God is a necessary being with a necessary perfect nature, that nature is good, and God's moral character grounds objective morality - good is what God's nature is. His character is the arbiter of all acts. This is the explanation for moral realism and where it comes from.
We as humans have only limited and flawed access to that knowledge, however. There are multiple methods to gain access, imperfect though it is. The more methods, and the more skilled, you used the more likely you were to be accessing an objective moral truth. As a Christian, divine special revelation through the scriptures was the most important method and form of access.
Is that what you were after?
