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To: circlecity

Yet God is not in the morality business. We cannot be “good”. We can only be “bad”.
Morality is a pretty obvious thing. Don’t enslave people. Don’t murder people. Don’t treat people as being lower than you. Don’t lie in order to gain or hurt. Don’t cheat. Etc.
The problem is that man tries to justify his bad behavior.


10 posted on 04/15/2019 8:16:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: AppyPappy

Moral law can only come from God.


12 posted on 04/15/2019 8:17:52 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: AppyPappy
You need to make up your mind

Yet God is not in the morality business.

and

Morality is a pretty obvious thing. Don’t enslave people. Don’t murder people. Don’t treat people as being lower than you. Don’t lie in order to gain or hurt. Don’t cheat. Etc.

The second statement is pretty much straight from the 10 Commandments.

Which God gave to us.

And HE defined.

So I would say that God is all about "the morality business."

16 posted on 04/15/2019 8:21:51 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: AppyPappy

Who says God is not in the morality business. His word to us is steeped in the morality business. And no morality is not so obvious. Apart from God there is nothing to establish anything as objectively “right” or “wrong”.


19 posted on 04/15/2019 8:23:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: AppyPappy

God is the only one who is actually in the morality business. Fallen humans are not.


24 posted on 04/15/2019 8:29:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AppyPappy

Yet God is not in the morality business. We cannot be “good”. We can only be “bad”.

100%


25 posted on 04/15/2019 8:30:46 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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