I wasn't being snarky. I'm dead serious. I haven't sat down and counted verses or anything, but I've noticed that when people quote Jesus about how to live your life it's almost always some positive good thing you can do for others. And then Paul came along and when people quote him on how to live your life it's almost always about sex stuff you're not supposed to do. Some of which Jesus never bothered to even mention. I think he had his own hangups that he put into the religion.
Paul is not a wolf. His words are part of scripture.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
He may have spoke more abruptly than Jesus but he was just a man. A man dedicated to God but still just a man.
Jesus did mention sexual sin. The women caught in adultery is a good example.
John 8:1-11 It shows what our response as Christians should be. The men gathered around wanted her killed as per the Old Testament law. Jesus first made them look at themselves by saying
“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” They all left because they knew they were all sinners.
Then he didn't just forgive her but said “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
Him telling her to go and sin no more is very important to the entire exchange.
Well, you're saying it's natural to feel that way, but I don't really have the right to claim it for myself even though I feel like I do. And I get it if God feels that way, but I don't see how to translate that feeling into fact.
I think you have a right to claim your own painting but I think underneath it all we should acknowledge that it belongs to God first and that our talent to paint or sing or whatever it is comes from God. Or that should be the Christian response anyway.
You're an agnostic and your viewpoint will be different, I get that.
Well I don't just accept things without reason to. I get that it seems obvious to you, but there should be an actual reason you can state that connects creating with owning.
To me creating something out of nothing means the being- God- who created it controls every part of it.
But is harm bad? That's what I was asking. I mean, I don't like being harmed or seeing people I care about being harmed, but does that make it actually bad, or do I just feel that way?
So, to be sure I have what you are saying correct, you are saying: Is someone running you over in a car intrinsically bad or do you just feel it is bad?
I believe it is both. It is intricately bad because God says that it is. But those feelings are also from God. He gives us the standard for what is good or bad. As humans we may not always feel in tune with those standards because we are fallen beings. We have free will and as such we may come up with our own standards. Feelings can be misleading because they are tied to our flesh.
God says that he put his moral laws upon our hearts after Jesus died. So the closer we are to God the more we will feel these and the further away we are, the less we will feel them. Until you get down to completely depraved people like that women who starved her 4 month old to death without any remorse. Such things will bring general public outcry because such depravity can be spotted even by those who don't believe in God because even those who don't believe are not as far away as they may think they are.