RE: Simple question for Christians.
July 18, 2015 at 5:48 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 6:02 am by ignoramus.)
Evolution got us this far.
Morals are neither good or bad. They are dynamic and depend entirely on their context.
Our legal system has the juggling act of tweaking and modifying what society considers is right (acceptable) and wrong (unacceptable) constantly ...daily!
Our laws dictate our morals.
Killing someone is wrong, Killing someone as a last resort because he was going to kill you is fine! They've always been a dynamic variable.
The rough basic universal laws of modern western societies is: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Compromises must always be made.
We are brought up by our parents who teach us the basics of morality.
Sometimes we know something is wrong but we do it anyway (steal a cookie?)
Personal moral guilt (as opposed to legal guilt) is just our internal conflict for going against our own internal current "programming".
People can say our morals come from God, maybe, but we can and do function as an evolved species without this intervention.
In closing.
You either believe we were created by "something" with intelligence or you don't.
If you believe in a "god", then everything's possible, isn't it?
If you don't, then everything must have a "natural" answer?
Morals are neither good or bad. They are dynamic and depend entirely on their context.
Our legal system has the juggling act of tweaking and modifying what society considers is right (acceptable) and wrong (unacceptable) constantly ...daily!
Our laws dictate our morals.
Killing someone is wrong, Killing someone as a last resort because he was going to kill you is fine! They've always been a dynamic variable.
The rough basic universal laws of modern western societies is: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Compromises must always be made.
We are brought up by our parents who teach us the basics of morality.
Sometimes we know something is wrong but we do it anyway (steal a cookie?)
Personal moral guilt (as opposed to legal guilt) is just our internal conflict for going against our own internal current "programming".
People can say our morals come from God, maybe, but we can and do function as an evolved species without this intervention.
In closing.
You either believe we were created by "something" with intelligence or you don't.
If you believe in a "god", then everything's possible, isn't it?
If you don't, then everything must have a "natural" answer?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
Know God, Know fear.
