(April 27, 2013 at 12:18 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 25, 2013 at 7:19 pm)Ryantology Wrote: What makes my personal version of righteousness less valid than God's?Maybe because you're not God. See this is what happens when you deny God. You start to think you can take His place by making yourself into your own god. You're really pathetic.
It's people who claim to speak for God and think all they have to say is 'God agrees with me' to make any notion they've dug out of a Bible verse justified that are pathetic. Someone who rejects what they're told about God's morals isn't making themselves into God, they're just rejecting what believers are saying about God.
God is not participating in this discussion, if the biblical God exists, he chooses imperfect humans to distribute his message. Predictably, that has resulted in tens of thousands of denominations, including ones that dictate that you have to distance yourself from your spouse in the eyes of the church if they have an addiction. We're not rejecting God's morality, we're rejecting what we're told by people such as yourself what God's morality is. We're rejecting it based on two things: one, you don't seem in a better position to know what God wants than anyone else is; and two, the morality given is a weak mix of iron age standards and modern ethics, with many of the best bits (like don't hold slaves) coming from modern ethics. I suspect that if there is a God, it's been grossly misrepresented by the people who think it's what they believe in, when they really only believe in their own concept of what they think God is. Just like every other believer in any god or God.
