McCulloch wrote:Matthew 7:12 wrote:[Jesus said, ]"In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 wrote:If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,' [...]
if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Why is it that one of these Biblical teachings is considered a good moral teaching but the other one is not?
To answer your question Mcculloch, we will be caught in circular reasoning.
I'm gonna say that the first one is good, because I (human) think it's good, while the other one I think it is bad. Them metacrock will ask me :
"well how U (human) know that the first one was good? it is because god has put this intuition in u, the difference between good and bad."
Then i will reply to him: well metacrock how do u know that GOD put that intuition in me, maybe the devil did, maybe god thinks the second is good and the first is bad.
He will reply it is impossible, definetly god thinks the first one is good.
And i'll ask again, how do u know this is what god wants?
He'll answer because he gave us the ability to discern right from wrong.
Then i'll go: how do u know it wasn't the devil.....
and it will go on for eons.
Am i close to what u meant by this thread Mcculloch?
Personnally i think in matters of right and wrong we should think in matter of human happiness.