2007-11-01 05:36:57 · 17 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We should base our morals on the Word of God.
God created us to be mortal.
2007-11-01 05:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There can be a supernatural basis for our morality, or there can be a totally humanistic one. The Christian view of morality is not that the Bible gives laws to live by - so that if rewards are offered here and some punishment there, then good people will behave better and so earn God's approval. (That's actually a strong Islamic idea.) Christianity says we can neither legislate nor use religion to make us good (or better). The Bible says there is an absolute morality which we all fail to keep. No amount of law-keeping, religion, good works or piety will ever make us good, right, or better. You need supernatural grace and salvation for that.
p.s. That must be a typo at the end of your question - 'mortality'? Or was it actually a Freudian slip of breathtaking proportions?!?
2007-11-01 12:52:25 · answer #2 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there isn't a supreme (supernatural) basis for our morals (mortality = death so I don't know what we should base it on) then there is no basis (otherwise our morals are just randomly chosen by society so who is to say they are right or wron.?)
For example, if you have any absolute moral you believe in, it has to be from some "higher power". Take genocide. The Nazis had no problem with it. We, in the United States, do. If there isn't a higher power dictating right or wrong, then us and the Nazis just have a difference of opinion. Who says we are right and they were wrong?
If it is a univeral law the genocide is wrong, then it had to come from some universal law maker.
2007-11-01 12:43:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think we can start with morality. If we believe in God, we have to believe that our human senses of compassion, mercy, love, empathy and sympathy were put there by God.
Since the Golden Rule depends upon those senses of compassion, etc, the GR would have the backing of the authority of God.
Non believers often quote the GR or something similar but the GR would have no real authority over them. The senses of compassion, etc. for a non believer would have to be just artifacts of evolution developed eons ago with little relevance to our current circumstances.
2007-11-02 06:02:00 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has sent His messengers, His Prophets some with Books of Guidance for mankind.
The rules to which we are asked to adhere is CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS.
The only problem is that today many people dont wish to follow and prefer to live a hedonistic lifestyle of drink, sex, debauchery, drugs, distraction and all kinds of wrongdoing. They dont want their party spoiled.
That's fine because God tells us that he will replace these people with a better peoples.
For this hedonistic, non-believing, non God fearing Western civilisation, birth rates are decreasing, women are becoming less fertile as they choose to have children later and later. The Times of London ran a front page article a couple of years ago asking why white European man is becoming increasingly less fertile and how it was a medical mystery. Birth rates are dwindling and the people are debauching themselves into non-existence.
Fine.
The Muslims are here and are still part of the fatsest growing faith in the World.
2007-11-01 12:43:38 · answer #5 · answered by Truth Teller 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A supernatural basis for morality is a bad idea. When you base your morals on the supernatural, you can justify ANY action, no matter how heinous and then you always have an imaginary sky savior to fall back on......
2007-11-01 12:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by Adam G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What do you mean is there a supernatural basis?? Of course that would depend on what YOU believe!! I personally believe that we have a God...although not in the biblical sense. We have intuition or the Holy Ghost to guide us when making decisions...Think about it...if you're about to steal something...you know it's wrong...now if you're a child and you take a pack of gum...the realization of consequences is not there...and you don't know it's wrong before it's taught to you. Once you reach the age of reason, God blesses you with the ability to understand what you're doing and you feel it in your soul. Now, none of what I've said has been proven...it's just my opinion...and you know what they say about opinions:)
2007-11-01 12:55:48 · answer #7 · answered by Jessica B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Objective morality is self-evident. And in the postmodern age we have the ability to see what is true from all points of view and call that universal morality. Putting others' needs and desires at least on the same level with my own is the universal, self-evident moral maxim.
2007-11-01 12:58:51 · answer #8 · answered by ledbetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No supernatural basis, it's called nature.
2007-11-01 12:40:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
its simple-everyone is responsible for their own actions-----smile and enjoy the day
2007-11-01 13:13:52 · answer #10 · answered by lazaruslong138 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋