Didn't "morality" exist long before Jesus came?

Answer 1

Of course.

Answer 2

Yes and No. Yes, mortality existed, and continues to exist as a biological imparative that encourages communal behavior between human beings (as we need comunities to survive as a species).

No, mortality does not exist as a force of nature or some intangable energy source that carries the weight of responsibility for anctions.

Morality carried beyond biology is only an idea, a concept. NOt to say that it is not a good idea, but ignoring the truth of what it is prevents it from being a stable idea. Morality and ethics would be far more effective as a means of creating a healthy sociaty if they were conciously shaped to that end rather than being ambigiously connected to religiouse idiologies which double not only as a sociaty glue, but as a means of controlling people.

Answer 3

Yes. Even christians have to admit that much. That doesn't mean that they won't confuse morality with written laws though. They seem to think that you have to have a religion in order to have morals, and that all morals come from their religion. Never mind all the people all over the world who hadn't heard a word about the bible but were thriving in more civilized and technologically advanced nations. I guess their morals don't count, or maybe those people just didn't exist, since we never hear about them in the bible.

Answer 4

You mean before Jesus born to earth.

Jesus Christ is the Jehovah, the God who created the earth, so morality is here since the time of Adam.

And God exist before earth was formed, so morality exist long before earth was created.

Answer 5

Absolutely. The laws of the Bible were laid down in the Old Testament, long before Christ walked the earth. God said that the Torah was written on the hearts of the Israelites, which would indicate that he instilled a moral sense of right and wrong as an inherent property of man.

Answer 6

Impossible. If so, then jesus was a lie. All religions before jesus, including the religion of jesus, had no morality. Isn't that the easiest thing to believe, christians. You don't want to have to think too hard.

Answer 7

Of course. Religion's claims to be a repository of moral standards are bogus. Moral codes obtain from evolution, which applies to societies as well as to species: a society which adheres to a sound moral code will survive preferably to one that does not. It follows that the proper standard of morality is: how does a proposed action affect society as a whole? Since murder and robbery are inimical to most any society, these are condemned by almost all moral codes.

Answer 8

Before Jesus came? Realize that the Lord in the garden of Eden was the Lord Jesus.

Answer 9

I understand that many of the ideas of the 10 commandments were common in the Jewish communities before Jesus.

As Jesus observed (and like now) a lot of people -especially those of wealth & power - did not pay attention to them.

Answer 10

Yes, but God has always been around. You don't have to believe in Jesus as God's son to be a moral person.

Answer 11

Of course there was morality all around the ancient world. For instance look at Egyptian religion and the sorts of morality they developed in their long history. And this religion was neither Jewish or Christian.