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agangbern
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Morality found its summit and true meaning in Jesus Christ himself. He is the true meaning of the morality of the past, the present and the future.
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Yoeman65
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Morality (good morality) is a reflection og God’s grace in the world. In many if not all cases, evolution, with regards to morality is a movement away from that relationship with God.
I have heard it stated that sin is not so much an action but an absence - absence of God.
Think about this: You cannot get colder than cold - cold is the absence of heat. You can not get darker than dark - dark is the absence of light. You can not get more evil than evil - evil is the absence of God.
Many people question whether there is a loving God if there is such evil in the world. I subscribe that we know there is a God, specifically because there is evil. In all cases, the less evil there is, the more God there is present.
God knows that the further people get from Him the more He can show his greatness. When people come baring gifts, it is easy to love them, but have them come baring fists and see how easy it is to love. Every person realizes that there is something otherworldly when we see a person being abused who still forgives. Remember John Paul II forgiving the man who shot him?
Morality doesn’t evolve from people, people evolve form morality. God’s way is tough, most people can’t stand the heat and find themselves creating a “god” that is less strict. The weird thing is that this leads them almost certainly to even greater and eternal heat. Ironic isn’t it?
I have heard it stated that sin is not so much an action but an absence - absence of God.
Think about this: You cannot get colder than cold - cold is the absence of heat. You can not get darker than dark - dark is the absence of light. You can not get more evil than evil - evil is the absence of God.
Many people question whether there is a loving God if there is such evil in the world. I subscribe that we know there is a God, specifically because there is evil. In all cases, the less evil there is, the more God there is present.
God knows that the further people get from Him the more He can show his greatness. When people come baring gifts, it is easy to love them, but have them come baring fists and see how easy it is to love. Every person realizes that there is something otherworldly when we see a person being abused who still forgives. Remember John Paul II forgiving the man who shot him?
Morality doesn’t evolve from people, people evolve form morality. God’s way is tough, most people can’t stand the heat and find themselves creating a “god” that is less strict. The weird thing is that this leads them almost certainly to even greater and eternal heat. Ironic isn’t it?
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Leela
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I bet Freud would have turned that around. God is a metaphor for the superego and Satan is a metaphor for the id. Makes more sense to me, too. But they are both metaphors. Every term is a metaphor.The superego is a metaphor for God and the id is a metaphor for Satan.
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agangbern
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Morality, as an ideal code of conduct, did not come from humans. It came from God, for God alone can determine with finality what is ideal. God gave the ten commandments, the shadow of the ideal. Men strove to give substance to the ten commandments, to follow them. In their zealousness to follow the first to the third commandment, to love God, they even reached a point that they would burn their fellowman, those for example they perceive to be “witches”. To observe the Sabbath, they would not “lift a finger” even to do good to their fellowman who needs them on Sabbath day. To follow the fourth to the tenth commandment, they return evil for evil: a tooth for tooth, life for life. In short, they implemented the laws according to how they understood them. And they failed to reach and fulfill the ideal.Come from humans? “Morality is a product of evolution.” ~ unknown
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So Christ came. He came to fulfill and gave the true meaning of the commandments. And he summarized them into two: Love God with all your heart and mind. And love your neighbor as you love yourself. To make us not miss their meaning, he personified them all, so that, now in case of doubt, we have only to look at him. In him we find what and how the laws mean.
Therefore, morality itself did not evolve. It was already there with God, and He communicated them to men. What “evolved” is how men interpreted that morality.
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JDaniel
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Hopefully, not in his grave!I bet Freud would have turned that around.
“Every term is a metaphor”? Are you being obscure?God is a metaphor for the superego and Satan is a metaphor for the id. Makes more sense to me, too. But they are both metaphors. Every term is a metaphor.
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