Is there a moral law?

Question

If not how can we come to a conclusion of right and wrong? If its just someone elses ideal.

Answer 1

My little girl thinks so. When someone takes something from her, pushes her, or jumps in front of her in a line she knows it's wrong without anyone having to tell her. We acknowledge a moral law whenever we say, "that's not *fair*!"

There is a real moral law and something in our deepest being sets it or at least lets us perceive it naturally.

Regards,
Jim

Answer 2

I think it's all in the way a child is raised if a child is raised by the Texas Chan saw massacre family then he only knows what is right and wrong in his eyes, what his family have thought him, like he might think that every one else that's different from him are evil.he may be a confused child and only knows things the way he thinks they are right. He might not have good moral judgment just like many other people out there that were raised to believe a certain way and think that if you are different that you are evil.on the other hand their are people that really do follow what the law and the 10 commencements , 7 deadly sins and the government laws or at least try their best, I think it's good that we have a law with someone Else's ideal because it really works, people are thought the way of the government law for a reason, because we need to be showed right from wrong when we are children we need to be guided in life in order to learn right from wrong , because if there is no one there to teach us we would never know right from wrong. Some people choose not to follow the law and turn out to be killers or something because there moral judgment is different everybody is some good and some bad , it's all in what the person believes inside ther heart , but other people that are raised to follow the law and their contious helps them remember what they were thought when they were just children.

Answer 3

Technically, there's no such thing as a moral law. Morality is a subset of Ethics and is concerned with questions of right and wrong. Within the field of morality, you have subsets such as relativism, absolutism, etc.
Example: An absolutist will say: It is always wrong to kill a human.
A relativist will say: It is not always wrong to kill a human. It is okay to kill in self defense, depending on the situation.
There are many more... but you get the idea.
In the western hemisphere, many civil laws are derived from Judeo-Christian religious moral principles though.

Answer 4

I don't know if you really exist or not. I assume you exist because it's pragmatic to do so. I don't know if I'm dreaming right now, but it's best for me to believe I'm awake. Likewise, I don't know with certainty that a universal moral law exists or not, but isn't it best and pragmatic if I believe one does? If not, what value does my life or actions have beyond my own satisfaction and survival? Besides, all humans experience love, so this would seem to be a good starting place to investigate the source of a universal moral law.

Answer 5

YES. It is in one's heart and/or soul. However, some people choose to ignore the law, much as they do with societal laws. Others choose to "bend" it, to suit their own agenda.

Answer 6

no -- there are not moral laws --in the States, you can get arrested for smoking marijuana, but not for committing adultery. Why? Simply stated, our laws are set up that way --adultery is allowed (not against the law), but smoking marijuana is not allowed (against the law).

Answer 7

By having any laws society is repressing you

Answer 8

behave with others as you would have others behave with yourself.

if you read it with intelligence, it contains the world.

Answer 9

When man was created by God, he was created with no consciousness of good and evil. God also created man with a free choice.

God wanted to be good to man by grace, which means unmerited or undeserved favor. God wanted to bless man apart from what he does. God does not want man to know what is good and evil so that whatever man does, he is not conscious that he is too evil or not good enough for God's goodness.

But God is Holy, being full of justice and righteousness, and cannot be good to man when he does evil or sin, though man does not know it. In fact, His completely just nature demands that He punish man for all sins.

Since He is also Love, He did the most awesome thing as our Creator - He sacrificed His Son Jesus, the Lamb of God, to take all the punishments of all the sins of the world, even before creating the world. That is why the bible says Jesus is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. This is the GOSPEL (the good news). I believe this is the event recorded in Gen 1:3 as "Let there be light". Jesus is the Light. Notice this happened before anything was created, even before the physical light we know as the sun, moon and stars, which were created on the fourth day. I believe the creation happened outside of time (which is what we know as eternity). I believe time only started when man fell (see below). Rom 16:16 tells us that "the mystery of the gospel was kept secret since the world began, but now made manifest" as Jesus coming physically into this world to take away our sins 2,000 years ago. 1 Pet 1:20 also says Jesus was foreordained to be slain before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times (2,000 years ago) for us to believe.

Back to creation's plan - with the sacrifice of Jesus in place, God is perfectly legal to not regard man's sin, including Adam's, because they have been punished on the Person of Jesus. In fact, man does not even know about Jesus' sacrifice for all his sins which happened before he was created.

That is why many theologians called this period the Dispensation of Innocence. Man does not know law, neither does he know grace.

But when Adam chose to eat from the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, thereby having a conscience of good and evil, man fell, and God cannot continue to be good to man by grace. With the fall, man knows the law (conscience of good and evil). But man has yet to know grace (what Jesus did).

In fact, God used the Ten Commandments (the perfect representation of the knowldge of good and evil) through Moses to show that there is no way man can earn God's approval or goodness by the law. Gal 3:11 says that by the law, no one is justifified (in other words, no one is right before God). By nature, man thinks he can be right with God by his own works, so God gave the Ten Commandments, which no man can ever keep, to force him to give up trying. Gal 3:24 says the law was given to lead us to Jesus (grace).

The only way out is for man to acknowledge that Jesus has done everything to take upon Himself the punishments of all his wrongdoings - and not to relate to or be right with God by doing good and and not doing evil (by the law) but by what Jesus did (by grace).

This is why the bible says in John 1:17, grace came as a Person, Jesus Christ.

This is what Paul preached so strongly in all his epistles, for man not to be under law any more (to know good and evil, and to do good, and not do evil) but under grace (to know that Jesus has taken care of all the punishments of our evil, and even more, He has taken care of all the good God demands from us, by giving us His righteousness).

Today, salvation comes by acknowledging and believing the complete forgiveness for all our sins, past, present and future (remember, His work for us was outside time, even before we were created?), and not live with a conscience of guilt of our sins. That is why Rom 8:1 says the believer must have a "no condemnation" consciousness. And Heb 10:2 says that we should have no more consciousness of sins.

In the New Testament, we are called to repent. In the Greek, repent is the word metanoeo, which means to change our mindset - to change our mindset from law to grace. The Greek word for church is called ekklesia, which means called out ones - that is, we are called out of darkness (law) into light (grace). Recall the creation - darkness in Gen 1:2 and light in Gen 1:3.

There is so much more about this good news, but I tried to answer your question as brief and as best as I can, without being too lengthy or confusing.

I hope the above has blessed you. Feel free to email me if you want to know more.

God truly loves all of us!


Andrew
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