Since some don't believe in God or hell or life after death. How can they explain the knowledge of good and evil?
2007-09-09 08:09:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Daughter, if the question doesn't describe you, then why are you upset?
2007-09-09 08:27:03 · update #1
It truly amazes me how many of you think or believe that Christians only have morals out of fear. Then in the same paragraph will say that you have morals out of decency.
2007-09-09 08:42:31 · update #2
some times Brother we shouldn't cast the pearl before swine remember?
2007-09-09 10:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its not a question of ultimate good and ultimate evil. It *IS* a question of actions and consequences, but not consequences after death ... the ones we have deal with in this life, in the here and now.
Since this is the only life that I'll ever experience, I want to make it count. I don't want to spend it miserably or making those that I care about miserable. This is not the dress rehearsal with better things to come -- THIS IS IT. I can either waste it, or I can make it fullfilling.
It honestly scares me that so many christians think that the threat of eternal punishment is necessary to behave. Do you have no respect for yourselves? Do you have no respect for your families? Your friends? Do you really have think that if there were no heaven or hell, that you would run around rampant, not giving a second thought to other people?
2007-09-09 08:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe I'm right in my faith, others may think I'm wrong, but because I choose to believe in my faith and live up to it to the best of my ability and I'm not willing to look at it any other way and take the chance I've been wrong all along (which I'm not). By living a good and moral life, believing in an awesome God, given mercy and grace daily and able to have the benefits of the rewards because of it-out weighs the possibilities of being wrong.
If there are no consequences after this life or even anything after this life, My God has already blessed me more then I deserve or could have imagine.
2007-09-09 08:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The knowledge of good and evil has nothing to do with "god". Law and morals date all the way back to the stone age . A moral person is moral because of his his personality, intelligence and his interpretation of right and wrong.
Any person who walks the straight and narrow because he's afraid of the fires of hell, is not a good person . Goodness comes from within the person, not because of threats .
2007-09-09 08:25:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can live a chaotic and immoral life is you want to, but you'll probably end up destitute, dying early or in jail. Those don't sound like attractive alternatives to me. As for good and evil, I think they are the same thing seen from different points of view. Everyone thinks they're good and we tend to think that those who have a different idea of good are evil.
2007-09-09 08:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have been societies that had lots of chaos and disorder, but most people like order and predictability in life. So they band together and impose rules on people that the group sees as beneficial -- things like don't kill people, don't mess with your neighbor's wife or azz, don't steal, don't lie, don't mess with my daughter, and don't slander people. These or similar rules are in all kinds of societies, pagan, god believing and atheistic/agnostic.
Pretty simple really. Good and evil have nothing to do with a tree -- they are just manifestations of human desire for peace and prosperity.
2007-09-09 08:31:23 · answer #6 · answered by BAL 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we live in a community and we make complex social structures. We formulate laws and we live by the acceptable of the people around us. We are interdependent with each other.
Edit: We are of different natures, and we need love whether we believe in God or No.
Example: Smoking was a very acceptable social act few decades back. It was considered so cool and manly to smoke, it was considered a good social act.
Nowadays, it is so much despisable and considered bad and as a sin by some people.
2007-09-09 08:25:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most non-believers are thinking people, who try their darnedest to avoid chaos. We like everything nice, neat, and orderly. I prefer to live a moral life because I want to set a great example for my loved ones and mankind in general. I do these things because I choose to; not because I am afraid of an imaginary mac-daddy who is gonna send me to hell to be tortured by a red guy
2007-09-09 08:29:49 · answer #8 · answered by FallenAngel© 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I got my knowledge of good and evil from my parents, who got it from their parents. I also get it from society and my instinctive desire to make people happy. And why would I live a life of choas and immorality? How would that benefit me? Land me in jail, give me a bunch of STDs, bad health, making all my family and friends separate from me? Who would want that--a life a pain and suffering? I don't have a Bible to guide me to do right; I don't need one. I haven't gotten a detention in school before, and I haven't been grounded since I was twelve (and that was just for talking back). I've never been pulled over, never gotten a ticket, never gone to jail...need I go on?
2007-09-09 08:19:06 · answer #9 · answered by Stardust 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is a nice start.
Human innately want to "belong" to society. If you lead a lifestyle that your society bans, you're going to be ostracized (or in today's society, jailed).
In fact, one could make the argument that someone who lives a decent life WITHOUT religion is "more moral" than someone who lives a decent life due to fear of hell?
2007-09-09 08:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pro 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
I see a lot of it in this question and response.
2007-09-09 15:16:36 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋