I'm an atheist. All the morals i have seem to have come to me through my own logic. I never needed your God to tell me that raping and murdering my neighbor's wife was kinda wrong, I figured it out all by myself. No Bible was even needed for that.
If I figured that out all by myself, shouldn't your God appreciate that a whole lot more than when somebody simply follows his Word? Isn't it a much bigger accomplishment to have done it without Him telling me all that?
I think your God is very proud of us atheists, really.
2007-03-28 17:51:42 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You silly person! Don't you KNOW that being a moral person has absolutely no value unless you accept Jesus as you saviour, & for goodness sake, NEVER figure anything out for yourself!
2007-03-30 16:45:17 · answer #1 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rejection of God is a sin, so your point is moot. Merely not raping and murdering doesn't make you a good person. As for figuring it out by yourself, what about human authorities like parents and government, and how would you figure anything out at all if God didn't give you a brain. By your logic, then dogs are superior to humans since they don't even need laws and government to not go around killing everything they see.
2007-03-29 01:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, no one (christians or atheists) have the right to judge one another. Secondly,
if you are following God's word, I would say that
He would be more proud of you than most christians. (A pat on the back for you)
However, just believing in God and doing good may not be enough. God wants total obedience
& total submission to Him. Don't ask why - does
an ant ask why you have to step on him?
2007-03-29 02:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by shannondelaney 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um, no, you "know" that this or that is "bad" or "good" because a higher moral authority has revealed it to you.
You misunderstand morality. One cannot be moral without some higher standard of morality. The fact that believers are moral makes logical and philosophical sense, since they believe a supreme being of perfect righteousness, who demands a standard of conduct, exists.
For non-believers to claim any sort of moral code is to, by definition, accept that a higher moral authority exists. How is that possible if one believes in "nothing"?
Literally, for non-believers, having Aunt Sue over for dinner is just as easily Having Aunt Sue for dinner, as there are no moral absolutes in the non-believer’s philosophy.
Non-belief is not a rational decision, but rather a moral one. Non-belief’s key focus is to remove external constraints so that one can live as one wishes to live, without true regard to an authority. Non-believers, e.g., Dawkins, imagine themselves as a liberator. In reality, they are proponents of the first lie told.
Therein lays the non-believer’s paradox. A believer looks to a higher moral authority for its beliefs and the origin of the moral code within us all. No one has to tell a believer that murder is wrong, poking a babies eyes out is bad, etc. Yet, non-believers, who claim to believe in nothing, actually possess a moral code.
Non-believers will intellectualize this moral code to be a by-product of the survival of the fittest mechanisms, yet their intellectualization of this rebuttal to the paradox falls short of the philosophical mark. Philosophically speaking, believing in a moral authority, even if it is the laws of nature, places atheists strictly within the religion camp, albeit on very shaky philosophical and theological grounds.
2007-03-29 01:08:43 · answer #4 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all judged on the same level because none of us are good enough to go to Heaven.
Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
None of us could make it, thats why God sent his Son Jesus to die on the cross to pay the debt that we couldn't.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, he gave his only Son, whoever believes on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
I think its great that you lead a good and moral life, please dont take this the wrong way but, Please don't count on that to get you into Heaven.
Tit 3:5 not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Marky, Thats why Jesus died, Because he Loves you and wants to see you in Heaven oneday.
2007-03-29 06:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by Seanzie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry. You did not come up with the moral law by yourself. God wrote His moral law into your soul. You might not want to give the credit for Him, but that is the way it is.
God is God no matter what you think of Him. He is also just. That is why He cannot forgive to people who deny Him. That is the only unforgivable sin. Without God's standard of moral law,we are left with human opinions about it. : )
He loves you. You have a choice. And He will respect your choice. : )
2007-03-29 00:59:16 · answer #6 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God made man in his own image. Not physical, but spiritually and intellectually. So while you think you have those morals yourself, it is actually becuase God made humans to have a natural sense of right and wrong.
2007-03-29 00:56:39 · answer #7 · answered by Scully 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Uh, "think" you'd better read the book before giving "yourself" too much credit for your great logic and morals.
In fact much is said about "you" in His word, unfortunately "me" too, but at least i know it and am trying to improve.
2007-03-29 00:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by dad 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My five year old knows that murder and rape is wrong, so what's your point? And you will be judged by what you did, or didn't do for God, not for you.
2007-03-29 00:56:04 · answer #9 · answered by Victor V 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Nope
Saved or not (only 2 levels)
2007-03-29 00:57:40 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋