If you dont get your morales and teaching on love from the Bible where do you get them from? and why bother?

Answer 1

It is beyond doubt that the morales of the new testament are teh highest, most Godly of all philosphies and religions on earth - that's why they are so bloody hard to keep and why so many Christians are accussed of being hypocrites - we get judged by the highest standards

on the other hand it is very very easy to be a good Muslim or a good Jew - perhaps that is why people in Islam or Judaism feel safer, it is easy to be good at those religions, but Christianity's standards are too high for most of the world

Answer 2

I was not raised with religion, but with spirituality. I got my morals for my mother, who else? Why bother? What a silly question. Morals are morals, no matter where they come from. My mother taught me right from wrong, about karma (basically treating others as you want to be treated or paying the "moral" consequence), and belief, love and respect for a higher being/source. I've never read the bible. But that certainly doesn't make me a bad person. I try to treat everyone well and think about all of my words and actions before I speak/act. Does the bible not teach you about judgment? That was something my mother was very clear about. Maybe she could talk to you too.

Answer 3

I suppose I get some of my morals from the bible, or rather, some of my morals are mentioned in the bible.

But at this point in time I think we all need to step away from organized religions and their dogma. Now is the time to examine our inner-Light and simply avoid negative, destructive impulses brought by ignorant conformity.

Answer 4

1st-why bother? If a society has no morals, it has no rules--hence anarchy, which protects no one. Where do morals originate? My parents, of course, but from society as a whole. Religious beliefs may play a role, but I doubt that role is as great as many believe. I think the experience of life over millenniums has create certain minimum moral necessities. The religious moral teachings all emphasize these moral necessities, without which a society could not survive--then add others that are sometimes both unnecessary and stupid. If God exists, why are we so presumptuous to think He/She cares about the mundane practices of our daily lives--such as what foods we eat, what liquids we drink, what non-forced sexual encounters we have. That's awfully arrogant of us.

Answer 5

From reason:

It is reasonable for the community to function that everyone avoid:
Killing other people
Stealing other people's stuff
Lying
Breaking your promises

In order to have a reasonable guide for ethical action, the peoples of the world have almost(?) universally asserted the following rule:

Do not do to someone else what you would not want done to you in similar circumstances.

Additionally, when thinking things through, it is reasonable that treating others compassionately will also lead to better life in community, but the definition of compassion can be disputed.

And I assert with confidence, it is a higher moral value to behave ethically because you simply want the community to function well than it is to do so in order to avoid torture or get a big prize in the afterlife. That kind of moral reasoning lies at the lowest level of ethics, usually reserved for 4-year-olds and criminals.

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Answer 6

my exact question why not upgrade it and delete the tainted
parts that don't work maybe we should teach ethics in the elementary level on up good preparation for life or for those that go into law or any other professions that could be handled with a little more virtue .A better world is always possible and will happen eventually anyway.

Answer 7

The most basic laws of mankind are instinctual - treat others as you would also like to be treated (a bit of a karma significance in that one), kinda of like what you do comes back at you (the rules of karma say in threefold). I believe in an eternal soul, therefore I am very and extremely bothered by my current life and the life of those around me. How assuming and pretentious of you, to think that only Christians are bothered with the impact that their life has on the present and future.

Answer 8

Do you HONESTLY BELIEVE that without the bible, people don't know that murdering is wrong? Do you think for ONE SECOND that your holy book is the only one that has any moral or ethical teachings? You Christians think that the reason to be moral is because some big invisible man said so. I'd hate to see what former Christians would do if the bible was proved conclusively to be false.

Answer 9

Here we go again. This comes up pretty regularly, and I'm sorry that you cannot understand that morality can be taught without reference to religion at all. I daresay that my Mom wanted me to grow up into an honest, upright person because of what that would do for my life and my self-opinion. She values goodness in people, and taught me to be a good person. I'd even venture that her standards (which are also mine) are HIGHER than those of many religious people.

She taught me that love isn't a temporary "feeling", but a commitment. She taught me to think about whether what I was doing was fair (even-handed, not self-interested), whether it was compassionate (by asking me to put myself in the position of others), kind and thoughtful (asking myself what another person wanted or needed), and so on. She taught me that being honest was going to give me what I wanted (my own good opinion of myself).

That's the MOST important thing that she taught me about right and wrong - that being able to meet my own eyes in the mirror without flinching was the best yardstick to determine whether I was living my life in an ethical fashion or not.

And she taught me to value my self-opinion above that of others.

She taught me that being ruthlessly honest with myself was the single most important step in living en ethical life - that I had to be honest with myself about why I do what I do, and to examine my ACTIONS as being the expression of my ethics...that if my behavior didn't support my self-image, I had to change my actions.

None of that was expressed in terms of religious belief.

Answer 10

If you only get morals from the Bible you are one sick puppy. What would you do without the bible become a gangster? Morals are taught by human nature, not religion.