Are there any universal moral laws?

Question

Or does man change them in order to advance his agenda? I, personally, subscribe to the notion that moral law is invented by people and changes it as society needs it.

Answer 1

No. If the world blew up tomorrow, it really wouldn't make much difference to the rest of the universe. Good and bad are judgement that we make, ourselves, from our human biased lives.

Morality is what allows us to live close to each other without dying off too quickly. The instinct of group think has evolved in us like it has in other animals. This has translated in society to rules that allow us to live amongst each other. As society evolves, so do those rules.

For example, women have only recently gotten the right to vote. We have had millenia of treating women as pets or owned objects before we figured out, rather globally, that they were people who deserved as much respect as men.

Answer 2

The 10 Commandments encompass all moral law, and has been the basis for the legal system in most Western countries. What makes a moral law universal is the consequences for breaking them. It doesn't matter what your religion or non-religion is. For example, killing your mother violates the moral law. What you are advocating is Moral Relativism.

Moral relativism is the belief that there are no moral absolutes; that morality is relative to something (i.e. individual or society). The other philosophy is called moral absolutism, that there are moral absolutes. Moral means what we ought to do and ought not to do. The question is whether they are absolute or relative. They cannot be both right at the same time, so one must be true. http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p17.htm

Answer 3

If there is a law, there is a crime also. Crime is breaking the law. If you ask Christians, the answers have been already given by Apostle Paul who talks profoundly in his epiostles that Christians are not under any law, while Jews are.

Moral laws are made. You are right about it. But Grace of God is not made, and God is Love and there is no law higher than that.

Answer 4

While I agree on the subjectiveness of moral law and it's changeability - I do think there is 1 universal moral law and that is the Golden Rule. Treat others as you would have them treat you. Timeless, ageless, and commended by every religion and the religionless even.

Peace!

Answer 5

There are no universal moral laws.

All the moral laws are human made.

Answer 6

forgetting the religious part of it, I think the 10 commandments should be considers a moral laws.

Answer 7

Yes. They are called the 10 Commandments.

Answer 8

The 10 Co-mmandments!!!!

Answer 9

there are TWO universal moral laws.

1. love GOD with ALL your heart and soul
2. love your NEIGHBOR as you love your self

the first law is easy to do. how? by going to church, praying to HIM, no blasphemy... etc

the second law is the hardest and most commonly disobeyed. it says that how much you love yourself must be the same as you do to other people, whether your loved ones or your enemies. giving love to tohse who love you in return is easy. bu giving love to those who hate you and you hate in return is the hardest task to follow. this becomes our ever after challenge in life. unless we learn to follow the second moral law,we will never experience eternal happiness here and else above

Answer 10

evolutionists and non-scientists agree on reciprocity (tit for tat; the Golden Rule. etc. )as a universal moral law