If morals are subjective then what is good or evil is merely your opinion. How is anything good or evil if we are just products of blind evolutionary processes programmed to pass on genes?Gnostic Bishop wrote:Only those who do not look think that only one Jesus is presented in scriptures.
Any time you want to stop running from moral debates on what Jesus taught, I am here for you.
And yes, morality is partly personal taste as morals are subjective.
That is why one can easily see that there is more than one Jesus in scriptures.
How could rape be evil if it facilitates the survival success of your genes? In a debate Lawrence Krauss opined that incest could be morally fine if it was based on love.
Do you agree with Krauss? Doesn't this kind of subjective morality amount to whatever I think is good is good.If you disagree that's just your subjective moral opinion.
Jesus is recorded as saying this;" Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
Do you disagree with this Bishop?
We consider those who fought and died in the war against the Nazis to be heroic and moral to do so.
Concerning his sacrifice Christ said this; "I lay down my life of myself,no man takes it from me." Yet you constantly try to distort and pervert this into being an evil act.
That is a reflection on your moral thinking.
It's not true that I run from moral debates.I have responded to the typical new atheist style tirades against the morality of the bible from you.
Here's one example of the kind of response I have provided by Peter Williams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agmHVFN2ip0
I don't expect you to agree but it's not as simple or obvious as you seem to think.
This of course is on the historicity of Jesus. Absolute bunkum and disingenuous as I have repeatedly shown that there is an overwhelming consensus among historians and scholars on this question.Gnostic Bishop wrote:Only a fool would make such a statement when a consensus has yet to be reached.
An unsubstantiated assertion. Provide evidence for your claim here Bishop.Gnostic Bishop wrote:You show a total ignorance of the Jews. From ancient times the Rabbis have always been able to overrule the written traditions and that God when they did not agree with what was written.
And what is your evidence for this? You want to redefine God as being "the good you find within yourself." This is pathetic, and you want to rewrite the history of ancient religions to fit your ideas.Gnostic Bishop wrote:Yes, they were basically using their sacrifice to forgive each other then celebrate the fact with the cooked lamb. It was their way to have closure and a new start by shedding old grudges.
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