RE: My views on objective morality
February 26, 2016 at 6:16 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2016 at 6:17 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(February 26, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 5:47 pm)Cecelia Wrote: You state that we have a better understanding of god. Why?
Well for one thing, Jesus coming helped change the people's understanding of God. When before we believed God was all for an eye for an eye, for example, we learned from Jesus that He actually isn't. He's about forgiveness and loving our enemies.
Other than that, I think as time goes on we (as the Christian faith) grow and learn, and are constantly coming to new realizations and in turn, a better understanding.
And it doesn't trouble you even a little that an all-powerful Being took a couple of thousand years to get people to understand what he was really like? I'm sorry, but that's a mug's game. If it isn't God that has changed but only our understanding of him, then generation after generation went about doing the wrong things, and causing immeasurate suffering along the way. Any reason God couldn't have sorted it out from go? Think of all the needless pain and misery that could have been averted had the Ten Commandments been replaced with the Beatitudes.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson