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For some, I think it goes something like this;
If the voice tells you what you want to hear, it is God. If the voice tells you something you don't want to hear, it is the devil.
Its actually often the opposite, Gods way may prove more difficult in the short term but ultimately leads to long term self respect and life eternal. The Atheist way is easier and softer, there is no higher authority.
How about killing unborn people? Do you think this is moral?? Just say they aren't people, because certain scientists say they aren't??????
The Bible gives guidelines on how to manage a slave owner if he beats someone to death. It does not say he should do it. There is the issue of if and how he needs to be punished. So, it does not directly say it is moral.
The directive is meant to be heard with God's voice of love . . . so the people realize God does not want them to beat slaves to death. There is the purpose of the commandment . . . that it does not happen.
Secular morality can include that it's ok to kill the unborn and just say they aren't human and this makes it ok. But not all secular people have the same morals; so it is not ok to try to speak for everyone else!! That's not moral, either.
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And please explain, how this gives you insight and specific knowledge into the moral compass inside every atheist.
Not the specific moral choices, only the source of value perception in the high consciousness, it's made possible by the spirit of the adjutant of worship, the primordial human instinct for Deity.
In short, a persons ability to perceive values is innate in the fact that you are yourself a son of God while you may not yet realize this ennobling truth.
It says it is ok to buy a child from a family who voluntarily sells their child. It does not say it is ok to kidnap a man and sell him. Kidnapping and selling is a capital offense in the law of Moses.Sorry, but God is telling you that:
1. It's ok to own slaves; the beating is acceptable because the slave is by definition your property.
2. It's ok to beat slaves, within some limits, because, again, your slave is your property.
There's no other way around that.
That is right; it does not erase slavery, nor does slavery erase abortion.Again, bringing up the unborn does not erase Biblical slavery, or other very nasty stuff in the Bible.
yes yes and yesGod tells you it's ok to keep slaves. God kills all the first-born of Egypt, but not the pharaoh. God orders his people to murder the inhabitants of Canaanite cities. God orders believers to kill children who curse their parents, sorcerers, people who don't worship him. He curses every descendent of Adam and Eve, whether they ate the apple, or not. Read Exodus. Read Leviticus. Read Genesis.
Well, a country may be ok with killing thousands of noncombatants, rather than have their own soldiers killed. And it this because the leaders value the lives of their soldiers, or are they being practical, knowing how much time and money it takes to train them?It's a book of its time. Like every book, there are bits that are beautiful and universal--humans are humans, whether Bronze Age or modern. Like every book, there are bits that are culturally specific. The acceptance of slavery, of polygamy, of a curse that moves from parents to children, of an army's right to loot, rape, murder people in besieged cities are all culturally specific, and sound horrifying today.
Whether a Christian, Jew, or Muslim could tell the voice of god from the voice of a devil is dubious, given what they have to work with.
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Well, a country may be ok with killing thousands of noncombatants, rather than have their own soldiers killed. And it this because the leaders value the lives of their soldiers, or are they being practical, knowing how much time and money it takes to train them?
How about killing unborn people? Do you think this is moral?? Just say they aren't people, because certain scientists say they aren't??????
The Bible gives guidelines on how to manage a slave owner if he beats someone to death. It does not say he should do it. There is the issue of if and how he needs to be punished. So, it does not directly say it is moral.
The directive is meant to be heard with God's voice of love . . . so the people realize God does not want them to beat slaves to death. There is the purpose of the commandment . . . that it does not happen.
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