sapphi_snake said:
"Right" and "wrong" aren't universal qualities, they're culturally determined. What's "wrong" in one culture can be considered "right" in another and vice versa. As for your last paragraph, it does not change the fact that life, using all the rules of Christian dogma, is pointless. God may try to "put you on the right path", but he still knows whether you'll accept or not. Read my post to Kasz. I already showed that Christianity negates the very purpose it attritbutes to life. |
They are universal because people do define themselves by right and wrongs. People are aware of right and wrong, not just through moral principles but essentially by their motivations. What changes is how people view them, which depends on several factors, of course.
Problem is that if they are created everytime then you can`t understand the past nor criticize, but you do, don`t you? Nor could people even begin to undestand one another.
Just because someone knows the outcome of your actions that isn`t nearly enough to make them pointless. Things need to happen. The knowledge that God has, exists/is real because things happened, happen and will happen. You are no less free because someone knows what you decided to do, decide to do and will decide to do. Because in the end, it`s still your decisions that make up for your reality and your outcome.
Knowing something doesn`t negate you doing it, because if it did the knowledge wouldn`t exist in the first place.
"This is a contradiction. He sais that people have free will to do whatever they want with their lives, but also that god has deemed certain actions as being "right", and certain actions as being "wrong". In other words god isn't interested in people expressing their individuality, but rather in them caving in to conformity and "sameness". What room is there for individuality, when there already is a standard model that everyone has to adhere to in order for them to be "with god"?"
If God wasn`t interested in having power to decide then you wouldn`t have free will or the ability to think and feel. What God wants, and you can see that through Jesus' teachings is for you to understand and realize that your "best" is within God.
If you are created in His image, you and everyone are part of His nature: kind, good, forgiving... love. That`s why i said you find yourself in God.
Of course, if you don`t believe it`s another thing.
