Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.

[Esquilax]

The problem with a list of pronouncements is that as soon as you run into something that isn't on the list, you're essentially bluescreened. Much better to have a system whereby we can ascertain every situation on its own merits. Teach a man to fish, in fact,

More importantly, a list of pronouncements doesn't entail that all of those pronouncements actually belong on the list, just that the person making the list thinks that they do. What we've got here is a list of things "god" thinks are moral and immoral, but as people have been saying about presuppositionalism over the past few days, the certainty with which an idea is professed says nothing about the truth of the idea, just the conviction of the speaker.

To say "god has this book of stuff..." doesn't tell us anything about the accuracy of the list, that's still something that we'd need to assess for ourselves, which is something an authoritarian set of pronouncements doesn't allow you to do.