The Morality of God
Another chillin question from the ask page. I promise I’ll get caught up soon, everything is just a touch hectic lately.
Chillin: How did god decide what’s moral and what’s not?
I’ll try to keep it short and allow for most of the dialouge in the comment section. When you look at God’s moral law (the ten commandments), the laws that are held within are based upon God’s character. God is perfectly holy and unparalleled, thus worshipping a created being is not moral. God gives life, and thus murder is man acting as God and taking life (I’ll rebut after you give me the typical “so why did God kill people in the Old Testament” spill. Just put it in comment form). God is pure truth, so lying is contrary to God’s character and thus immoral. The idea of morality is based solely on God’s unchanging character and immorality are actions and heart conditions that are contrary to that character.
May 1, 2008 at 11:39 pm
sooooo…. why did God kill people in the Old Testament?! hahahahaha
May 2, 2008 at 12:50 am
I don’t see how you answered the question at all.
May 2, 2008 at 1:46 am
…God decided what was moral based on the characteristics that He carries. How is that not an answer?
May 2, 2008 at 3:14 am
That doesn’t make any sense considering that he doesn’t follow the morals he sets forth for us, so they probably aren’t his characteristics.
Besides, where did he get these characteristics? The answer is essentially nonsensical.
May 2, 2008 at 4:02 am
You not agreeing with an answer is not the equivilant of it being nonsensical. I could just as easily respond to all of your posts by saying “nope, not a real answer.”
How do you propose that God does not follow the morals that He sets? This argument gets thrown out often with little to back it. And don’t use the actions of theists to prove your point, show me with God.
God did not obtain His characteristics, He has always had them. Science holds that energy isnt created or destroyed…where does it get its properties? Your question is actually nonsensical itself.
And listen to alt-country!
May 2, 2008 at 3:26 pm
It’s weird, I’ve responded to your comment twice and it won’t show up!
May 2, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Hmm…I promise I’m not deleting them.
May 2, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I didn’t think you were. It’s probably my damn computer. There’s nothing I despise more than rewriting lengthy comments.
Well, I’m taking the night off, so I’ll just have to rewrite my comment tomorrow.
Much love and peace.
Adam
May 2, 2008 at 10:11 pm
So I can look forward to a good lengthy comment.
May 3, 2008 at 7:28 pm
No it’ll be shorter than the original. I hate rewriting that stuff.
May 7, 2008 at 1:58 pm
God kills and practices self-gratification all the time. He is unforgiving and sadistic. Violations there you go.
I don’t think morals are his characteristics for another reason, too.
If nothing existed before god, god wouldn’t be able to refrain from killing, raping, etc. since there would be nothing to kill or rape!
May 8, 2008 at 1:19 pm
God removing life is not a moral issue, but a creation issue. He creates, thus he has dominion to choose what to do with His creation. For us, the taking of a life is sin and immoral because it assumes a role that only God should hold. Define your idea of self-gratification.
Your second point makes little sense. Just because there is nothing to be immoral against hardly means that it is not in His moral fiber.