Do they really think society would be in chaos and we wouldn't know that murder and stealing are wrong, that society wouldn't have any rules?
DO they really think all morals and ideals of ethics stem from the bible?
2006-09-09 04:05:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evyerone one is different, and has different beliefs. Do you really think all christians believe what you believe they do?
2006-09-09 04:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I cannot answer for all Christians but you will recall that many civilizations practised cannibalism, and in some cases, that was as recent as fifty years ago. Then missionaries went into these areas. Some of the earlier missionaries were killed and eaten. Yet others followed them. Finally, the cannibals accepted the Bible and gave up that practice. While you may not actually want to practise cannibalism, do you think it is right, especially if YOU are the intended meal?
I am not saying that there wouldn't be any laws but what are they based on? If you say society, think about this: Society makes a law that a person who becomes totally disabled but has two good eyes should donate both eyes to someone who is physically fit but is blind. That way, a useless person is gotten rid of and a useful person is empowered to work for the betterment of the society. Your 25-year-old brother was in a car accident and becomes totally disabled, paralyzed from neck down. He has two good eyes. Your response?
No, all morals and ethics do not stem from the Bible. Think of you brother in the paragraph above.
2006-09-09 11:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, Jesus made no laws, only preached an ethical and moral code to follow. No, they don't believe all morals and ethics stem from the bible, since not all the things laws were derived from and for were around at that time. They only know that the laws Moses brought down from the Mount that God gave were meant for them to follow, and some of them were around being practiced already by other societies. Most laws are common sense protective devices most civilized societies recognize one way or another.
2006-09-09 11:16:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I suppose I'd be expected to say that I believe that without the Ten Commandments or Jesus, we would have no laws. In fact, since Christianity only came into being 2000 years or so ago and there have been laws governing the civilised behaviour of people in general society long before the advent of Jesus or even The Bible, I have to say, "No". I also believe that even when any society is in crisis, people's capacity to reason will, sooner or later, cause them to find a solution to that crisis, with or without a Bible. Perhaps the people who wrote the Bible believed that they were providing a way of preventing calamity and crisis in their own society.
2006-09-09 11:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by coastcat2003 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the knowlege of the LAW, there is no sin. Where do you think the laws we have on the books come from? If you do not know it is wrong to kill or steal or commit adultery, why would you not want to do it? Just because you may know it is wrong now, how did you ever get that? Only from someone reading it in the bible and it becoming a law of the land. Why else would you even think it was wrong? The head hunters that used to be cannibals thought nohting of eating their dead until it was pointed out to them from the bible that it was wrong to do that. That was not that many years ago. So why don't they do it now? And would they not still be doing it if they had not been shown it was wrong from the bible? So where does that put your assumption that we don't need the Ten Commandments to have the laws we have today? IF not for the Ten Commandments, how would we know what is right or wrong?
2006-09-09 11:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are also natural laws that people learn by studying creation. There are the natural order of the beasts, what can be eaten & what can't. Laws are an order of things, so they are created to prevent wickedness to ruin a civilization.
Before the flood things got so bad that God destroyed the earth with a flood. At the time of Babal, things got so bad God confused the language & divided the nations accordingly. At the time of Sodom & Gomorah, things got so bad God destroyed it with fire & brimstone.
The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life.
To the born again christian, God writes His laws & love in our hearts. We are not under the law of sin & death, We are under the Grace of God.
I believe all rightious ideal, morals, ethics, & law abiding stem from the God of the Holy Bible. All creation has to flow in an orderly way or else everything would die.
2006-09-09 11:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apparently they do. But contrary to their claim that our laws are derived from the Ten Commandments (their justification for posting them on Couthouses), our laws actually come from old English Common Law, something that was evolving back when they were still pagan.
If our laws come from the Ten Comandments, then we are remiss in failing to arrest and prosecute anyone who worships a god other than Yahweh. There are over a million Hindu Americans and who knows how many neo-pagans who'd be rounded up. Then there's all the people who do anything else on the Sabbath (which is SATURDAY!) but worship. Moses gave us an example of what to do with them: he found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath and had him stoned!
2006-09-09 11:10:37 · answer #7 · answered by kreevich 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, of course we would. However, while our laws are based on Old English Common Law, they are also based on Judeo/Christian beliefs. Here's something you've missed: the Ten Commandments are spiritual laws also. To Tripwire: your comparison is flawed in that that country suppresses freedom in it's people. America gives every person personal freedom to choose their own behavior, and their own beliefs. With true freedom comes great responsibility. It always amaze me how there are so many attacks against Christians in this section. You must really hate God and those who follow Him to spend so much time attacking instead of having a real and respectful discussion. You don't ask your questions to find understanding, you ask your questions to see how many people will bash the ones you're talking about.
2006-09-09 11:22:37 · answer #8 · answered by Saved 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately a lot of them do. That's why they can't conceive of "moral atheists" because we don't come with an instruction book like they do. They completely miss the point that primitive tribes have laws and have never heard of JC.
2006-09-09 11:10:19 · answer #9 · answered by Scott L 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you have it backwards.... it is because of jesus and the 10 commandments that we have the laws we do in this country...... we are the greatest democracy in the world. All our morals and ethics do come from the bible...
2006-09-09 11:17:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They do apparently, but they're wrong. Look at Japan and other non-Christian societies. They have their own common sense approach to life, and their crime rate is way lower than most so called moral Christian countries.
2006-09-09 11:08:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋