Someone asked me recently about morality. I told that person that I don't feel like I'm any different of a person now as far as my behavior goes and that the only real thing that has changed is that I don't feel guilty all the time anymore.
What is right and wrong and how do I steer that ship without a biblical compass?
I don't know if there is a absolute objective morality, I'll let the philosophers hash that one out, but to me it pretty much lies in what we all consider to be the Golden Rule.
This video raises some interesting points. (Warning for a bit of "language" toward the end):
Your commitment to this book puts you at odds with your own inherent sense of morality.
When he said that I thought, YES, that. So many times I ended a bible reading session scratching my head at what in the world God was doing and how that could be right.
One story that has always bothered my husband was the relationship between David and Michal, the daughter of Saul. Go ahead and read that if you still want to look up to David as the great man of faith that we all have been told. Yes we know that David was remorseful in the whole Bathsheba and Uriah incident, but not here.
One more quote from the video:
Give credit to that sense you have that tells you that NO MATTER THE CONTEXT hurling rocks at an adulterous young women until she dies as a result of it is nothing less than obscene, barbaric cruelty.
I ignored that sense for far too long and it is my hope that other people would really stop to think about it as well.
What is right and wrong and how do I steer that ship without a biblical compass?
I don't know if there is a absolute objective morality, I'll let the philosophers hash that one out, but to me it pretty much lies in what we all consider to be the Golden Rule.
This video raises some interesting points. (Warning for a bit of "language" toward the end):
Your commitment to this book puts you at odds with your own inherent sense of morality.
When he said that I thought, YES, that. So many times I ended a bible reading session scratching my head at what in the world God was doing and how that could be right.
One story that has always bothered my husband was the relationship between David and Michal, the daughter of Saul. Go ahead and read that if you still want to look up to David as the great man of faith that we all have been told. Yes we know that David was remorseful in the whole Bathsheba and Uriah incident, but not here.
One more quote from the video:
Give credit to that sense you have that tells you that NO MATTER THE CONTEXT hurling rocks at an adulterous young women until she dies as a result of it is nothing less than obscene, barbaric cruelty.
I ignored that sense for far too long and it is my hope that other people would really stop to think about it as well.
