What is God's moral law and can that apply to us today?

Answer 1

here is a common parable:

a skeptic once told the great rabbi Hillel that he would convert if he could explain the whole Torah while standing on one foot. Rabbi Hillel stood on one foot and said "Do not do unto others what you find hateful to yourself. The rest is just commentary. Now go and study"

and that is a good story of what Gods moral law is all about

Answer 2

God's moral laws are those commandments we find that direct our actions and thoughts rather than simple ritual. For example: a moral law would be not to lie, not to steal, not to follow others in doing evil. Rituals would be observing the Sabbath, offering of tithes, eating only certain foods.

As one studies, many moral laws become evident and each one applies to us today as they did when God first gave them to Moses. For example: in not following others in doing evil (Exo 23:2) would be used today -- just because all your friends are jumping off a bridge, doesn't mean you have to also.

All of God's moral laws apply to us today, but its sad how many choose not to listen.

Answer 3

God's Moral Law is summed up in the 10 Commandments.

10 Commandments in Old Testament is EXODUS 20:1-17.
These same commandments are in the New Testament too.

10 commandments in old, new, and how changed by Papacy.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/1370381936049373547XecLCp

Texts that deal with the 10 Commandments.
PSALM 119:126,142,151,172
EZEKIEL 22:26
DANIEL 7:25 (GENERAL CATHOLIC CATECHISM)
HOSEA 4:6
MATT.5:19; 19:17
JOHN 14:15; 15:10
ROM.3:31 = "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
ROM.8:4
HEB.3:18-19; 4:1-11 talks about the 4th commandment.
HEB.10:16
2PETER 2:18-22 talks about the 4th commandment.
JAMES 2:10; 4:11
1JOHN 2:3-4 = "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
1JOHN 3:24 = "And he that keepeth his commandments dwell in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us."
1JOHN 5:2-3
REV.14:7 talks about the 4th commandment in EXOD.20:8-11.
REV.14:12= "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
REV.22:14

(site that talks about the 10 commandments)
http://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/1370381936049373547XecLCp
http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?query=Law+of+God&type=and&results=10&search=1

Answer 4

It depends on who you ask.

Roughly speaking, fundamentalist Christians define it as a narrow set of prohibitions and commands derived directly from the Bible, or a strong history of tradition.

Immanuel Kant, a somewhat left-leaning philosopher often set in opposition to Ayn Rand (equivalent right-wing philosopher) said that there was just one "moral law" (your term), which he called the Categorical Imperative (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03432a.htm). It expresses the moral law as ultimately enacted by reason and demanding obedience from mere respect for reason. Kant in his ethics takes his point of departure from the concept of a good will: "Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or out of it that can be called good without qualification except a good will." In short, he believed that all men of reason had an innate motivation to "do good".

Still others (evolutionary biologists and ethologists, i.e., people who study "moral" animal behavior) such as political scientist Robert Axelrod, and Richard Wright, the author of "The Moral Animal", say that the desire to "do good" occurs in a small percentage of the population (approximately 5%) as a natural consequence of a class of behaviors called "iterated tit for tat", roughly defined as equivalent to the Golden Rule -- only Axelrod says that the moral law (your words, not his) derives FROM the Golden Rule, not the Rule from the Moral Law.

To the extent that moral imperatives are derived from our common understanding of what it means to "be human" and live in a civilized society, these principles will always apply; to the extent that we respect and look to religious doctrine and tradition for reference, it will continue to be relevant.

To put it in terms that the religious might agree with, God does not forget us, but we forget God.

(Insert name of preferred deity or principle above)

Answer 5

God has nothing to do with morals and if he does your not a very nice person to only have morals because of some imaginary person!
You should have morals as you are a good person! not because of god and you want the reward "Heaven" at the end!

Answer 6

Everything in the Holy Bible can be applied to our lives today.

God was the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He will never change.

Grace and God Bless!

Answer 7

Spiritual laws are eternal, such as love.
Moral and social laws change with each successive religion: the application of love in various times and places.

Answer 8

I know your gay...
its okay cause whoever you deceide that you are, I am still am going to love you, but just not in that gay way, cause god makes all people diffrent sizes and shapes and problems, but he only makes the people he hate gay,
thats you, you it boy
you gay!

Answer 9

follow gods word as wel his commandments on being pure and flee from lust. as well adultry. my opion?

Answer 10

look i know you dont want to hear this, but it would take hours to type so you should go read the new testament at http://www.biblegateway.com .