Don't you think morality is relative even to god if he thought incest was okay for awhile?
922325
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. And sometimes that means banging your hot sister.
1057387
misising a few words I think ... anyway moral is flexible and relative. if yet you ind yourself in question I guess you have to live with it ...
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I agree with you.  If a man with a forgiven heart calls God "Father," can't I call that same man, "Brother?"  After all, if we're forgiven don't we all have the same heavenly Father?
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YES I BELEIVE THAT THE HOLY GRAIL MAY BE THE BLOODLINE OF CHRIST JESUS, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COVERS UP A LOT OF THINGS.  GOD CREATED SEX, IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN AFTER THEY ATE THE FRUIT EVE WAS CURSED TO HAVE PAINFUL CHILD BIRTH. RABBIS DO MARRY AND JESUS WAS JEWISH. THEREFORE, SEX IS NOT SINFUL IT IS PART OF CREATION AND CHILDREN ARE A BLESSING, GOD HIMSELF WANTED TO HAVE ONE...
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Hi,\n\nThis sentence - which, despite some answerer's comments, is very often said - is a very valuable sentence because it gives us a lot of insight into the believer's mind. It's my belief that somebody who grows up in a very insular 'fundamentalist' house often tends not to develop an independent sense of right-and-wrong. There must be exceptions, of course, but a lot of people refrain from killing, stealing, coveting and wearing mixed fabrics not because they've ever objectively considered the right-and-wrong of these actions but merely because 'God told them not to'. 'Hell' is the equivalent of 'wait till your father gets home' - but the difference is that the latter is only applicable for children who don't have a fully-formed concept of actions and repercussions.\n\nFor somebody whose definition of 'good behaviour' is based solely on what they read in a book, it's quite logical for them to presume that an atheist would not engage in good behaviour. The unfortunate implication is that, for these people, they would freely murder, rape, steal, pillage and wear mixed fabrics if it weren't for God's decree against those actions. Furthermore, they see murder as bad not because a person's life has been lost and his/her family torn asunder but merely because the perpetrator 'sinned' against God. Would you trust such a person with your child?\n\nLastly, what objective conclusion can you draw about the morality of a person who says 'A sin is a sin - lying and killing are equal in the eyes of God'? What conclusion can you draw about the morality of a deity who would believe that?
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Religion often makes us feel guilty about the most common human experiences, usually related to sex. This clearly contradicts nature. Sex is sex. If you're of the legal age, with another consenting adult, and aware of the risks/protection, then knock yourself out. This really has nothing to do with morals, mostly just religion.
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They are just perceptions and only relative to each person.\n\n2000 years ago, is was moral to have slaves. \n100 years ago, it was moral to listen to your pope.\n400 years ago, it was moral to listen to your king.\n\neveryone has a different morality, regardless of religon or culture.
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No the Bible does not condone this, but unfortunately, like everything else, it is often twisted around to excuse people's bad behavior.\n\nJesus asked that if a person could not love his brother who he has seen, how can he love God who he has not seen.\n\nOften a person will say, "Oh, well that refers to SPIRITUAL" brothers and sisters". I can treat my physical brother like crap .... and still be a CHRISTIAN.\n\nStrange, these same perverts want their kids to honor their "FLESHLY" parents, don't they? I call them pervert because they pervert Jesus teachings.\n\nTo these folks, it doesn't matter what the bible has ever said ... people make it up as they go along and change the interpretation of the scripture to justify their circumstances.\n\nOften the scripture in Luke, is misused by many. It says, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. " -- Luke 14:26\n\nHere is a location the Church has perverted the scripture in the interpretation. The Greek for this does not imply HATE. It simply implies to love them less than him.
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I believe there is an Absolute Truth for certain things, the question however is can we discover it? As far as "Absolute Morality" then there are too many ways to look at it.
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Gods Word is the standard in which people are to be judge, and that is in fact going foward now. Every man woman and child is headed for the grave, everyone is on probation and that gift of time has been bought for you by Jesus, and it was He that Was with God in the beginning, and If we love Him we are to obey His commandments, now they are NOT the 10 suggestions, they spell out the first 4 how we relate to God and the last 6 how we relate to each other. Apart from God's Word there is no morals at all.
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Yes. It makes him more human and more close to us. It is not a "sin" to marry. If it so then everyone on earth will go to hell.
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It doesnt make sense because you have decided there are moral people. There is a way that seems right to a man and this way ends in death...God knows that we are all immoral...those that consider themselves moral have no use for God they are the one that are in trouble the rest of us understand that we need God seek him and he reveals himself to those who see value in him...It really makes sense when you know God nad its not suposed to make sense to those who have no value in him....Just the way it works.
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Well, yes.\n\nUp 'til that point, God the Father could love us from above, but not from beside. That is, the one thing that God the Father didn't know from the inside was sin. Because he is perfect, he never sinned, nor was he ever tempted. And yet by sending his Son to earth, who was man and God, he gained the experience of being tempted to sin. Remember when Satan tempted Christ three times after Christ's 40 days of fasting in the desert. This was the first time that God was ever tempted to sin.\n\nThis is how God's mercy--or what you call compassion--was born. This is how he came to know what it was like to be human. And so, yes, this is how he came to be compassionate for those of us in the flesh who sin against him.
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Interesting but contrary to Scripture. I understand the problem you're considering and offer this as a possible solution...\n\nAdam and Eve were perfect and it took several generations before the degenerating gene pool became severe enough to forbid incest.
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Yes, if you believe that the whole of history is contained in the Bible, then, he would have to have married his sister.  However, it could be that a generation or two had actually passed, or, that there were other people around from other tribes... in which case, it could also be his cousin.
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sure,it's OK. i mean,what does his sexual orientation have to do with anything? he is a person like everyone else,he has feelings and no matter he is gay,he is still a child of God. people are selfish and they don't see that being gay is not that bad.Christians often think that being gay is a big sin,but so what?God won't send him to hell if his only sin is that he's gay.He will send to hell sooner those people who hate him because he's gay! So what's my point,there's nothing wrong with having a gay priest as long as he's a good person and as long as he does his job with pleasure and faith.
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Morally? No-God permit this with the people. Until he changes things to a new way people were allowed to judge of earthy things just not the heart. it was a protection to the people.