RE: Christians, what is your VERY BEST arguments for the existence of God?
March 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm
(March 27, 2010 at 8:17 pm)tackattack Wrote: @flying skeptic- was that to me? What you're referencing is not a moral absolute, it's a societal local moral. I see it as scalable from
0- no moral
1-subjective morality
2-societal morality (local)
3-societal morality (universaly)
4-absolute morality
most people fall under 2,3and 4 in some level, based of the situation. to say a moral absolute doesn't exist is facetious,bcause at the very least it exists as a concept nad that's how I'm using it here. As a concept for honing or personal morals into a grander perspective and a more objective tool. Christians shouldn't get their morals from the Bible, morality is, at it's core, subjective and Christians should use the laws written on their hearts by God as a standard, the same as atheists (they just claim that no one wrotethem there).
I of course fundamentally disagree with the jean-jacques rousseau quote. I've seen time and time again, left to their own devices the majority fails regularly to be self-less while all at some point can not help but take for their own. I think society is a reflection o self and that's why jean-jacques rousseau sensibility movement with high emphasis on subjectivity and introspection was such a goo step to improving society.
What behaviors would you classify as 'laws written by God in our hearts'? I bet whatever you come up with will happen to be a behavior that increases our survivability, consistent with evolutionary biology. I'm not completely faithful to my quote of Rousseau. I prefer to say most people don't 'do bad' for their own good.
Don't you think atheists have no basis for morality? (a belief held by many Christians I have argued with)
