Theistic morality

[Purple Rabbit]

For the Bible to be taken seriously as a moral guide, it should have explicitly condemned slavery, otherwise it is no moral guide at all.

This is an interesting claim.

Is this merely your opinion or do you rely on some objective standard of morality that leads you to this conclusion? If the latter, what is that objective standard? (I have somewhat been following your conversation with PR and I think you have alluded to some objective standard but I did not read anything where you explained what it was. Maybe I missed something. If so, could you please at least point me to your explanation?) If the former, doesn't that throw you back into moral relativism which you seem to reject?

I agree with The Omnissiunt One that it would have made a single compelling argument for a divine moral. Especially if it also had condemned explicitly misogyny, genocide, homophobia, eternal damnation in hell, and if it had embraced euthanasia on a voluntary basis and stem cell research to name a few.

It is not an objective standard though. It's a tentative shared informed standard and that's all it takes.