If so...what were they before??
2007-11-02 14:51:47 · 9 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus didn't think so. On several questions when his contemporaries were coming up with wrong moral answers, Jesus said, "It was not that way in the beginning."
Either morality is an unchanging standard established by God from the beginning, or moral precepts are simply the changing whims of fickle humanity. Last year babies were precious, but this year, says the world, they are products of conception, and it's fine to puncture their skulls and vacuum out their brains. But God has always and forever said, "In the image of God he created them," and "Do not murder."
Those like Mr. Crank who think morals have evolved because people have changed their minds about issues like slavery are reporting history, not morality. God made us free from the beginning; it has always been wrong to deny human freedom and keep those made in the image of God in bondage.
Cheers,
Bruce
2007-11-02 15:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by Bruce 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It depends on your world view how you would answer this question. Morals don't evolve. They may change but that doesn't mean they evolve. The basic morals are the same today as they have been long before we even knew. From our perspective, they have always been.
Loving God and your neighbor as yourself is in the Bible from beginning to end. Sin prevents that. It just didn't happen one day that people would decide murder is wrong. We were designed that way.
2007-11-02 22:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolving morality is covered in Col. 2:8 and is not of God.
2007-11-03 15:05:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Webster puts it this way:
Conforming to generally accepted ideas of what is right and just in human conduct.
Looking at this biblically, this is Righteousness in the eyes of God. God has instituted the right and just way for mankind to live especially before a Holy God.
So I am going to say that because God is and always has been, morals always have existed.
Psalm 9:8 And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgement for the peoples with equity.
2007-11-03 10:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by cmlrdjesus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since evolve means to change yes. They are still changing. There is no such thing as an absolute morality.
2007-11-02 22:02:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, that is one of the problems God had with people after the world got to being populated. Cain is one of the biggest reasons for peoples lack of morals.
2007-11-02 22:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, morals were naturally selected. Altruism is probably the easiest-to-research example of such a moral.
2007-11-02 21:55:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course they did. For example christians for hundreds of years have accepted slavery as morally acceptable, now they don't.
Before they were just different perspectives on morality.
2007-11-02 21:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
That is a really good question.
2007-11-02 21:56:53 · answer #9 · answered by ImUURU? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋