RE: What Human Rights?
July 18, 2015 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 4:18 am by Kingpin.)
(July 18, 2015 at 2:40 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 1:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The Lord is sovereign and has no moral obligation to all His Creation. To question His authority represents an arrogant attempt to elevate yourself to His equal. (Romans 9:19-21) Do you consider yourself His equal that you could judge him? (see Job 39) No one has any claim on the Creator and yet the Judeo-Christian God is one of both Justice and Mercy. (Psalms 50:6, Rev. 15:3-4)
Human rights are the natural consequence of both His Lordship and Righteousness. Because Man was made in His image (Gen. 1:27), we were created to act justly towards one another like He is (Matthew 5:48, Lev 19:2). By rational demonstration, Aquinas shows human rights as "what is due to each", i.e. justice.
Your god does not exist. I am not his equal, I am infinitely superior to him, because I have the perfection of existence, to quote one of your dusty old saints.
To claim "your God does not exist". Claims that you know with absolute certainty that God does not exist. This puts the burden of proof on you.
(July 18, 2015 at 2:40 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 1:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The Lord is sovereign and has no moral obligation to all His Creation. To question His authority represents an arrogant attempt to elevate yourself to His equal. (Romans 9:19-21) Do you consider yourself His equal that you could judge him? (see Job 39) No one has any claim on the Creator and yet the Judeo-Christian God is one of both Justice and Mercy. (Psalms 50:6, Rev. 15:3-4)
Human rights are the natural consequence of both His Lordship and Righteousness. Because Man was made in His image (Gen. 1:27), we were created to act justly towards one another like He is (Matthew 5:48, Lev 19:2). By rational demonstration, Aquinas shows human rights as "what is due to each", i.e. justice.
Your god does not exist. I am not his equal, I am infinitely superior to him, because I have the perfection of existence, to quote one of your dusty old saints.
To claim "your God does not exist". Claims that you know with absolute certainty that God does not exist. This puts the burden of proof on you.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.