RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 20, 2015 at 11:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 12:09 pm by Jenny A.)
(June 20, 2015 at 11:45 am)Randy Carson Wrote: If you mentally address a woman and imagine yourself having sex with her, you have committed the sin of adultery in your head just as much as the man who physically does it. Is this so difficult to understand?
Sorry, but as a moral standard I think that, that is bankrupt. I judge people by their actions not their thoughts. Those who are tempted but do not act are to be congratulated. That is how we want them to behave.
(June 20, 2015 at 11:45 am)Randy Carson Wrote: If one man walks into a church and opens fire on a group of people having a prayer meeting, how is he more guilty of hatred than the man who imagines himself doing the same thing but cannot get up the courage to actually pull the trigger?
It's not the hatred so much as the shooting that I object too. Seriously. Both men may hate equally, but one of them is much more dangerous.
(June 20, 2015 at 11:45 am)Randy Carson Wrote: God judges the heart because He knows the inner thoughts.
You do realize you are talking to people who do not believe in your god?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.