RE: Creation/evolution3
January 29, 2015 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 7:35 pm by watchamadoodle.)
(January 29, 2015 at 2:12 pm)Drich Wrote:(January 29, 2015 at 1:50 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Didn't Paul say God's law is written on everybody's heart (i.e. intuitive)? My intuitive sense of right and wrong wants to puke when it reads the story of Genesis.The laws yes. These things are wrong because God says they are wrong. But the mistake being they are wrong because a given act in wrong in itself. When in fact they are wrong only because God has forbade man from doing these things.
(January 29, 2015 at 1:50 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: This idea that we should abandon our own innate sense of morality is really dangerous IMO - especially when the Bible is so ambiguous and people claim to get guidance through the Holy Spirit.Your right I am not going to change my mind, but the thing is my mind is not where you think it is. I did not say we should abandon 'morality'. Just view it for what it is. a work study on whatever the lessor of two evils is. In man's morality is an evil can be justified or if it can be minimumized it ceases to be wrong. (abortion and homosexuality) where in God's ecconomy these things will always be wrong for us to do.
I don't expect I will change your mind though.
Let me see if I understand. Imagine a pregnancy, where the doctor can perform an abortion to save the mother's life, or the doctor can do nothing and allow both mother and fetus to die. Are you saying that there is nothing inherently bad about death, but it is bad to break God's rules? Therefore the doctor should do nothing and allow both mother and fetus to die (rather than break God's rule about abortion to save the mother's life)? (Correct me if I misunderstand.)
I agree that nothing is inherently good or bad. I can see why a Christian might be tempted to use the Bible to define good and bad. Unfortunately the Bible isn't a law book, and it isn't consistent IMO.