Is it true that people did not have morals, and in fact ran around murdering and whoring themselves out,?

Question

before the ten commandments?

Answer 1

What, didn't you get my invitation for tonight's whoring murder party?

Answer 2

Morals do not come from the 10 commandments, but from God himself. According to Paul, in Romans 1, even people who do not have the law understand that certain things are right and other things are wrong. Murder would be a good example.

Cain understood that it was wrong to slay Abel long before the 10 commandments were given. If you accept the Bible chronology that places the creation at 4000BC, then you have 2500 years before the 10 commandments were given. Yet before that these is evidence in the Bible that people understood morals.

The 10 commandments simple clarified what is right and wrong. Along with the over 600 other laws in the books of Exodus through Deuteronomy, you have the framework for defining right and wrong. That way there is less argument about it. Everybody agrees that we need to do the "right" thing. The laws just help to clarify what the "right" things are.

Answer 3

No. Just because the ten commandments didn't exist doesn't mean no one had any morals. There have always been some kind of law in existence--Wikpedia says, "The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi's Code), created ca. 1760 BC (short chronology), is one of the earliest extant sets of laws and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia. Still earlier collections of laws include the codex of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (ca. 2050 BC), the Codex of Eshnunna (ca. 1930 BC) and the codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (ca. 1870 BC)."

There have been and always will be people who have no morals to speak of. They don't care about the laws that are in existence--they only care about themselves.

Answer 4

No, each society and person develops their own morals. Often this is influenced by a religious set of rules or the societies accepted rules becomes the basis for a given set of religious rules. Mostly these morals start out as things that help societies function i.e. murder is bad, stealing is bad etc.

Answer 5

Remember the Ten commandments were oral social guild lines that were elevated to coming from the mouth of a God so ppl would follow them...I think it all got worse after they were written down, but you should ask Tedd Haggard.

Answer 6

No it continued right on through the ten commandments until today.

Answer 7

Bettie, you should have seen it! It was like Animal House on uppers and date rape drugs. Man those people were Cray-Z!

I can't believe they were able to come up with things like the wheel and bronze tools. I mean, when did they have the time? In between orgies?

Yeah, right. It all started because of Adam and Eve, all runnin' around naked and all that. What bad role models to be the parents of an entire planet's population.

Answer 8

Absolutely! That's why there is no recorded history of dinosaurs in the Bible, and proves that evolution is wrong!

Just in case it's not obvious, the above is a joke.

Answer 9

Ancient China, Japan, Europe, these were hotbeads of violence before Christianity came, and if you believe that, I have a bridge I'd like to show you.

Answer 10

its amazing even after the commandments the flood and all that today even still has people of no moral stature

Answer 11

People generally know when to draw the line because we were born with a certain frontal cortex in our brains that elevates us from the beast.