How are morals Biblically derived?

Answer 1

The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to God's revealed will.

Answer 2

Is the question "how does someone derive morals from the bible?" or "how are morals derived solely from the bible?"? Your question can be taken either way as it seems to have been from the other answers.

Answer 3

The Bible promotes morality a couple of ways:
First, by providing us with a list of the Ten Commandments. They are a basic listing of what things are right and what things are wrong.
Secondly, the Bible provides examples of people living rightly and those that live in the wrong. The stories re-affirm the Commandments.

Whether you believe in the accuracy of the Bible or not, the stories stand as a teaching tool, if not the recorded history of Judaistic and Christian teachings.

Answer 4

They are not, but christians think they are.

Maybe you should address this to christians, specifically, who could show you where the Ten Commandments are in the bible, and that they do not exist anywhere else.

However, back to reality, morals have been outlined by nature, communities, and tribal governments since time immemorial ..

We would not have had the beginnings of "civilization" without some moral code to guide us, whether it was innate or learned

Answer 5

They aren't. Sins are biblically derived. But morals exist independent of the Bible. They were around long before it existed.

Answer 6

They're not, nor should they be.

Morality does not depend on religion.
— John Ruskin

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
— Steven Weinberg

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
— Albert Einstein

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
— Albert Einstein

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
— Ouida, (1839-1908)

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love.
— Anton LaVey

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
— Joseph Conrad

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
— Joseph Lewis, (1889-1968)

An Atheist loves himself and his fellowman instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now -- here on earth -- for all men together to enjoy.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
— Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965)

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
— Louis Kronenberger

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
— Katharine Hepburn

And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good---
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
— Robert Pirsig, Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

I believe that at every level of society - familial, tribal, national and international - the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
— Tenzin Gyatso, XIVth Dalai Lama

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
— Albert Einstein

One of the greatest tragedies in human history was the hijacking of morality by religion.
— Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.
— Gora, (1902-1975)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
— Albert Einstein

What...can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decades.
— Alfie Kohn, in "Psychology Today"

Christianity ranks as the most colossal failure in the history of western civilization. It has preached peace, love, and justice for almost 2000 years, yet we are as far from those worthy goals today as when Christianity began.
— Louis W. Cable

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Every religion manifests ideals such as do not steal, do not tell lies, and so on. These are the norms for any civilized society and they should not be linked to any religion or god.
— D. D. Bandiste

It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?
— Pierre Bayle, (1647-1706)

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
— Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804)

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.
— Peter Walker

I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
— Albert Einstein

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.
— C.S. Lewis

It has been contended for many years that the Ten Commandments are the foundations of all ideas of justice and law. Nothing can be more stupidly false. Thousands of years before Moses, the Egyptians had a code far better.
— Robert G. Ingersoll

To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserter either gross ignorance or else willful fraud.... The system of morals expounded in the New Testament contains no maxims which had not been previously enunciated.
— Henry Thomas Buckle

Answer 7

Depends on who you ask.

Some use mainly the 10Cs. Others pick stories as examples - stories THEY think are good demonstrations.

In reality, the bible (pick a version) is a self-contradictory mess and a pretty poor guide for morals, as it rewards blind faith over all else, even if that means murdering or torturing others.

Answer 8

Well... the leather goods definitely have thier biblical origins (the belt and the boot)... but still- they're not as harsh as a stoning.

Answer 9

they arent. before the first books were even written (by moses), there was written laws in other cultures.

code of hammurabi predates moses by at least 400 years.

Answer 10

what about the qur'an's morals?