Another hot topic regarding the morality of the Bible is homosexuality. What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Is homosexuality morally wrong? How should we treat homosexuals? There are six primary passages that deal with homosexuality in the Bible. 1. Lev 18:22 [Lev 18:22 KJV] 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: …
Skeptics commonly bring up slavery to attack the morality of God and the Old Testament. The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured …
Revelations won wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:35 am Can anyone show me when and by whom slavery was first instituted? I don’t think anyone can state when it was first instituted, but it has existed since the earliest known records. In the earliest known records, slavery is treated as an established institution. In the …
POI wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:01 pm I guess the Bible God is a-okay with both owning and breeding chattel slaves for their entire lives? Please see the OP here (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=40608) Here’s the passages: [Exo 21:2-4 KJV] 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:31 pm I have said I feel morals are all Subjective. If all morals are subjective, then there is no absolute oughtness to how things should be. One person’s judgment on what is right or wrong doesn’t have to be another’s and neither has any absolute weight over the …
Hume’s law states normative statements cannot be logically deduced from descriptive statements. This is the “is-ought problem”. The is–ought problem, as articulated by the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, arises when one makes claims about what ought to be that are based solely on statements about what is. Hume found that there seems to …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:11 am That is, while you feel – today – there are bases for comparison (Good vs Evil), there is evidence they are Subjective to an Age, not defined by a God, nor by others. For you to simply claim you know they exist is just wrong. Is it …
alexxcJRO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:46 am We have the same problems as before. We have the same contradiction. We have an omni-perfect being(the most wise being, the most just being, the most knowledgeable being, the most benevolent and loving being, the most powerful being) making laws for slavery, for chattel slavery-the worst kind. …
boatsnguitars wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:54 pm Harris argues for an objective basis for morality grounded in the well-being of conscious creatures. In his book “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values” (2010), Harris posits that there are objective truths to be known about human well-being. He suggests that science, particularly neuroscience, …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … en_(1).tif Decalogue – Ten Commandments The Old Testament places a special emphasis on the Decalogue (Ten Commandments). After the commandments were given in Deut 5:1-21, in verse 22 it says they were written on two stone tablets and no more were added. [Deu 5:22 KJV] 22 These words the LORD spake unto all …