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Newbirth's current signature from Paul's epistle to the Phillipians is illustrative of the doctrinal truth that Jesus was more than merely human. Jesus was the Incarnate God-Man, God's only begotten Son, who needed to become a member of the human race so that He could redeem the human race.
Some conspiracy theorists like a Dan Brown in his fictional The Da Vinci Code book would like to reduce Jesus to being only a man and only an example and not a Savior-Redeemer.
Some conspiracy theorists like a Dan Brown in his fictional The Da Vinci Code book would like to reduce Jesus to being only a man and only an example and not a Savior-Redeemer.
you say morality does not physically exist...but that does not mean it does not exist.... your thoughts do not physically exist...but thoughts become words and words become action....to say that the golden arises arises naturally from human nature....then the opposite must be equally true and immorality arises naturally from human nature, then every man is subject to the laws of nature and cannot be at fault for his actions whether they be moral or immoral ....
Sometimes the conclusions of deductive and logial reasoning are conceptualized without any conscious 'choice' to make them make sense. When something makes sense, it makes sense regardless of whether you want it to make sense or not. A person can be an atheist as a result of their deductive reasoning and still wish there really was a loving architect of the universe cradling reality and guiding its progress towards an enlightened and peaceful existence.
Fault is a concept, just like morality, and they do arise from thought. They are abstract in and of themselves, and only make sense to the unreligious when related to other things. Unlike deontology, relative morality actually requires some thought.
To say man can't be at fault from his actions because there's no objective arbiter of morality in a nonreligious moral paradigm is basically conceptualizing and compartmentalizing abstract concepts apart from the reality of our existence; 'fault' can and does play a part in the natural world, as we see in everyday life. Just because morality is a primarily cognitive concept with no genuine objective arbiter, does not mean that morality has absolutely no value. We asribe value to our morals, and we do so because of the necessity of the cirsumstance.
To say man can't be at fault from his actions because there's no objective arbiter of morality in a nonreligious moral paradigm is basically conceptualizing and compartmentalizing abstract concepts apart from the reality of our existence; 'fault' can and does play a part in the natural world, as we see in everyday life. Just because morality is a primarily cognitive concept with no genuine objective arbiter, does not mean that morality has absolutely no value. We asribe value to our morals, and we do so because of the necessity of the cirsumstance.
The necessity of your circumstance is that you believe in God, thus you need to get to heaven, and so you assign the ultimate value to the morals within the bible. You consider them the objective standard for morality because it is your firmly held belief that the biblical verses about God's superiority to all things requires you to consider him as such. But to us, your chosen morality is just as subjective as ours.
"At the expense of your own family? "
Certainly, if, in the end, I thought it would lead to greater overall happiness for me.
"If morality is a human construct, then human laws would serve to restrain, as they do now, I am sure. "
Following the U.S. Code because if you don't they put you in jail is different, in my mind, that considering that code moral.
Certainly, if, in the end, I thought it would lead to greater overall happiness for me.
"If morality is a human construct, then human laws would serve to restrain, as they do now, I am sure. "
Following the U.S. Code because if you don't they put you in jail is different, in my mind, that considering that code moral.
immorality would be an abstract concept and does not physically exist and arises naturally from human nature....like a storm.... the storm is not at fault for blowing down your house...you are at fault for building your house there...so man cannot be at fault according to your abstract concept theory...
