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Originally posted by Sparko View PostIf it doesn't depend on what people think is best for society, then how are you determining if something is best for society? There has to be some objective metric at work in your scenario, or you are just spouting nonsense. How can YOU, JimL claim that stealing is NOT best for society? What standard are you using?
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Originally posted by seer View PostThat is the point Tass, men are wicked. The Bible does not support racism - period, you know that since we have gone over it in the past, and just because some try and use Scripture to justify personal bias does not mean Scripture supports it.I was speaking of the fact that you CAN NOT justify racism with Scripture.
So if a community decide to jail homosexuals then that is moral. Got it...
If homosexuality is a normal part of human sexuality then so is adultery, bestiality, prostitution, pedophilia, etc...As was pedophilia...
So what? That is just another one of your shifting cultural norms.
I don't need the Bible to know that killing our own offspring is immoral - do you?Except we know that religious people are happier and more content.
Except they would be even happier if they were religious.
Then give me an example, which one of my Christian beliefs is grounded in the social mores of today. Be specific please.Last edited by Tassman; 08-17-2018, 11:04 PM.
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This is getting tiring. There is no justification for racism in Scripture, where homosexuality is clearly defined as sin, a moral evil.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe objective metric would be the overall social results concerning the use of, and the adherence to, the morals in question. If society, because of the moral laws, is itself a place wherein its members are able to live together more peacfully and harmoniously than they could without such moral laws, then it doesn't matter if some ignorant numbskull thinks he disagrees simply because he's a contrarian.
This is where your idea falls apart.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postagain, how do you judge the "overall social results" if what a person or group believes is good doesn't matter? How do you know "living peacefully" is "good" since what you think or believe is good doesn't matter?
This is where your idea falls apart.
And btw, we know what is good, because what is good is that which is relative to our best interests, and that which is relative to our best interests relates to that which is in the best interests of all of society collectively. But, since you will continue to disagree, perhaps you'd be willing to explain to me your own perspective, i.e. "how do you know what is good or what is evil."
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Originally posted by JimL View PostNo, what you don't seem to understand is that morality is about that which is in the best interests of the group, that the best interests of the individual is secondary to that. So, what a flawed individual might think is irrelevant to the good of society overall. For instance, you might ignorantly believe that murder, theft etc etc. are not in contradiction to the good of society as a whole but the empirical evidence proves that what you ignorantly believe to be true is actually false. i.e. that the community is better off without murder, theft etc etc.
And btw, we know what is good, because what is good is that which is relative to our best interests, and that which is relative to our best interests relates to that which is in the best interests of all of society collectively. But, since you will continue to disagree, perhaps you'd be willing to explain to me your own perspective, i.e. "how do you know what is good or what is evil."
Yet you keep appealing to what is best for society. If nobody, including you or any group can determine what is "best" or "good" then how do you measure if a moral is making society better? You have destroyed your own metric and then appeal to it as an objective standard. Your view is completely nonsensical. You are like a blind guy claiming that red is a better color than blue for blind people but can't point to red because you are blind.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postagain, you already said that what the group thinks is "best" is no more valid than what the individual thinks is "best" - that even if the whole world believed that something was "best" that doesn't make it "best"
Yet you keep appealing to what is best for society. If nobody, including you or any group can determine what is "best" or "good" then how do you measure if a moral is making society better? You have destroyed your own metric and then appeal to it as an objective standard. Your view is completely nonsensical. You are like a blind guy claiming that red is a better color than blue for blind people but can't point to red because you are blind.
Now, are you going to tell us, explain, from your perspective, what it is that you believe makes a thing, or behavior, either good or bad so that we can examine your reasoning, or are you just going to keep asserting that I'm wrong?
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Originally posted by seer View PostThis is getting tiring. There is no justification for racism in Scripture, where homosexuality is clearly defined as sin, a moral evil.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postagain, you already said that what the group thinks is "best" is no more valid than what the individual thinks is "best" - that even if the whole world believed that something was "best" that doesn't make it "best"
Yet you keep appealing to what is best for society. If nobody, including you or any group can determine what is "best" or "good" then how do you measure if a moral is making society better? You have destroyed your own metric and then appeal to it as an objective standard. Your view is completely nonsensical. You are like a blind guy claiming that red is a better color than blue for blind people but can't point to red because you are blind.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostChristians have always used scripture to support their own personal prejudices and those of the community to which they belong. There are however many Christians who seem in good conscious to be able to accept homosexuality and view the biblical injunctions against it differently than you....so perhaps you should confer with them and learn how to love rather than hate.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostSo if I think that adultery or prostitution or stealing or bestiality or promiscuity are morally wrong then I am hating? Really?
And while it's an issue of homosexuality today, not so long ago it was slavery, racial discrimination and mixed marriages or the denigration of women as second class citizens or witch-burning. Christians have always used scripture to support their own personal prejudices and the prejudices of the community to which they belong.Last edited by Tassman; 08-19-2018, 08:37 PM.
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Originally posted by seer View PostSo if I think that adultery or prostitution or stealing or bestiality or promiscuity are morally wrong then I am hating? Really?
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostAre you seriously equating homosexuality with prostitution or stealing or promiscuity. Really! And yet you voted for a heterosexual man who famously does all these things.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by JimL View PostNope, you're still not getting it. Morals, what we decide is right and wrong, what we agree to as a society, are those behaviors which we as a collective agree to as being either good or bad. It's not about what one ignorant individual might think. The metric, like I said before, is the nature of the resulting community in which the moral laws are adhered to and or enforced.
Now, are you going to tell us, explain, from your perspective, what it is that you believe makes a thing, or behavior, either good or bad so that we can examine your reasoning, or are you just going to keep asserting that I'm wrong?
Previously you said:
Originally posted by JimL View PostNo, I'm saying that belief has nothing to do with it. The whole world could believe that theft, murder, rape, whatever is in the best interests of the community of man and yet that belief still be wrong.
Either you are trolling or you are about the stupidest idiot ever to post on theologyweb.
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