2006-06-29 08:23:54 · 16 answers · asked by kimber g 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and can someone explain to me how good and bad existed way before religion?
2006-06-29 08:30:52 · update #1
The Holy Spirit is our conscience, thus proving if you believe in good or bad then you belive in God
2006-06-29 08:27:50 · answer #1 · answered by A* 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many people of faith think that the first instance of people doing the right thing came shortly after Moses appeared with the ten commandments. They fail to realize that the bible did not invent morality, it merely took the ideas that were allowing societies to run smoothly and published them.
The fact is that "right" and "wrong" can be easily differentiated by simply asking oneself "If I were in the other person's shoes would I want this done to me?" The idea that a "god" needed to literally cut rules to live by in stone is patently absurd. These rules are the natural progeny of any group of people who have empathy.
2006-06-29 15:29:17 · answer #2 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you assume that belief in an invisible skydaddy and a pointy-tailed bad guy are necessary to know the difference between good and bad? Christians obviously have a problem understanding it, themselves, seeing as how so many of them are in prison. Also, read up on your religion's history and then tell me that Christians are more moral than anyone else.
2006-06-29 15:28:21 · answer #3 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever lied, stolen, used God's name in vain. These are a few of the Ten Commandments. It's appointed unto man once to die, then judgment. When you die God will judge you by His Ten Commandments. You will be guilty, and if you are guilty, you will be sent to Hell. Jesus came to die on a cross and rise again to pay the debt for your sins, If you Repent, which means to ask forgiveness and turn from your sins, and put your Trust in Jesus Christ, you will be accepted into Heaven. This is the only way.
2006-06-29 15:59:38 · answer #4 · answered by fishinforsouls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good and bad are purely subjective, a matter of opinion. If you mean right and wrong, I've known the difference since about the age of eight, even without some guy-in-the-sky to explain it to me.
2006-06-29 17:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good and Bad are separate from religion. They existed LONG before any religion was ever conceived.
2006-06-29 15:26:54 · answer #6 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe you can be a middle man. you must be one or the other. If you do not believe in God than you believe in satan you may not mean to but you only have 2 answer not a 3rd.
hope it helps.
2006-06-29 15:30:19 · answer #7 · answered by soccer-vocals_9@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. Good and bad are subjective. They mean something different based on your point of view. They are also very simplistic and childish notions, quite useful for hiding the truth. I place such concepts in the same category as race when it comes to usefulness.
2006-06-29 15:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by kaplah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its all matter of subjective opinions and geographical location.
I guess Eve and Adam knew what is good and bad before they eat the fruit. But Then again GOD said " now they know goods and evil"
How cool for GOD to punish ppl to whom he never explained anything before.
Therefore GOD did not complete highschool.
2006-06-29 15:28:03 · answer #9 · answered by PicassoInActions 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, good and bad are just conventions. In one country, an action is bad, but elsewhere it is good, or at least, tolerated. Evil is in the mind of the viewer.
2006-06-29 15:28:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋