(September 17, 2022 at 4:35 pm)GUBU Wrote:Quote:If men are free to invent their own meaning and assign their own value to the words right and wrong what is stopping the gambler from telling his wife that gambling is good?
What will prevent the murderer from telling you that he is a more evolved being which has the right to naturally select his victims for death in the hopes of wiping out their gene pool?
What is stopping a corrupt mind from aiding the destruction of society?
I don't know, what is there in christianity stopping you from telling me that all these are morally good, given its human creation?
1. Well to be fair the Bible never condemns gambling but Solomon does warn against the danger of trying to get rich quick which is almost always what separates a gambler who's just having fun with his own money from someone who is wasting their life savings on craps.
2. Thou Shalt not Murder.
Our job is to live as Jesus lived and speak as Jesus spoke, we learn about who he was from the writings of the New Covenant.
Jesus didn't live for wealth, power, sex or even fame. In fact he avoided the multitudes, owned nothing, never had sex and made it his goal to show others that his power was a gift from the Holy Spirit and stated that others would come along and perform even greater feats than he did.
The cross; therefore; represents a man willing to die the most humiliating and painful death for his God, which (if we interpret the meaning of the term God within its relation to how men think) means that he was willing to make his entire body into a pure sacrifice for his ultimate moral virtue. From what I can; tell whatever a man describes as his god is his own understanding of what the best virtue is.
And it is the inspiration of this story, which was signed in blood, that keeps a Christian from embracing corruption.
