To be Christian or a Muslim do you *have* to believe in moral absolutes?

Answer 1

It sorta seems like it. It makes one wonder about the mental, physical and genetic properties of those that "believe"....is there something in their brain that pre-disposes them to think they way they do? Like the "gay gene", except for religious freaks? Nature vs. Nurture? Ok, i'm rambling now. Bye bye.

Answer 2

I can only answer as far as Christianity is concerned. As in Islam there are some practices that violate morals. However, there are moral absolutes that God has implanted in all of us. This is the reason why we are made in Gods image. That term does not mean that we are made with arms or legs (bodies), but we are made with a mind that knows right from wrong without having to be taught right from wrong. Sure you are disciplined as a child for doing wrong as our ability to control ourselves at a young age is not that good. However, we still know if we are doing wrong or not.

If there were not moral absolutes than we would not be able to say that a rapist of little girls and boys is doing something wrong. There would not be any law. This is also what the ten commandments are. God reminding us of what is already inside of us. Jesus reinforces them in the sermon on the mount when he sheds more light on the commandments meaning.

So moral absolutes were instilled in us by God and reiterrated to us by God thru the prophets and finally Jesus who died for our sins which just happen to be our refusal to live up to the moral absolutes God set in us from the beginning.

Matt

Answer 3

By looking at Christianity today, one would think that Christians must believe in moral absolutes. When reading answers on this site, I am always amazed at how many rules and dogmas Christians have. And yet, their god told them that love fulfills the law. They lay up precept upon precept. They must answer every question, whether it is answerable or not. They must tell everyone what they believe and want to make everyone follow every rule they have made. They become intolerant of "sinners," anyone who disagrees with them. They think that their morality is not only good for them but for everyone.

And blah blah blah.

Answer 4

I think there are moral absolutes in life and obviously in religion. Is it wrong to kill an innocent person? (Hang on to something sturdy, this may surprise some of you) In Islam, yes. It's always wrong to kill an innocent person.

Is it wrong to steal? Yes! It's always wrong to steal.

Those are moral absolutes, and to disagree with those statements as a muslim, means that you are not upholding part of the faith.

Answer 5

I don't know about moral absolutes. You have to just belive in the religion. How many religious people are truly moral? All they care about is praising their God.

To be a good person , you've to be moral, whether religious or not. Try to be Good , before you become religious. Grasp all the good things in religion.

Answer 6

You have to listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit. There are grey areas that we need His guidance to decide. For example, you may hear some Christians say that alcohol is a sin. But the Bible lists drunkenness as a sin, and it talks about something being acceptable for one person, but if it causes another to stumble you're not to do it. That makes something like alcohol a conidtional sin. Eating meat can be a sin if it disturbs someone you're around. You are guilty for causing someone else to sin.

Romans 14:15
If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.

This is just one example of a conditional sin. We live in an era of grace. Sin is to disobey God - to act in a way that is not loving to our fellow man.

Answer 7

To be a Christian, you have to accept God's Word as absolute law.

Answer 8

Yes, absolutely. Yes.

Answer 9

well as a muslem i don't beleive so.... actually most things meant to be taken in absolute beleif actually make sense when you think about it.... but i guess some stuff still make no sense to us, and we have to accept them as absolute, since we are inferior to God....

Answer 10

yes and if you live according to Gods word you will have a better life.