re: The bible doesn't forbid homosexuality - the left

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What makes that objectively good?

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who said anything about “objective good?“

Obviously, the members of any given society would decide what advances the interests of their society.

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By whether it is consistent with and advances the best interests of the society in which it is implemented.

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I'll toss this out there as an honest question -
What determines whether morals should benefit a society over the individual? How does this become enforced? If society forces an individual to act against that individual's personal best interests, doesn't that become a case of "might makes right," thus losing any argument from a morally superior vantage?

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Absolutely.

By our measure, those would be “immoral“ societies. By their own measure, they would not.

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How do you identify an outstanding moral code that should be used if literally any action can be seen as morally good depending on what a society wants at any given time?

This is the fundamental flaw of moral relativism: it removes the possibility of objective moral reasoning and reduces morality to mere preference.

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This is the fundamental flaw of moral relativism: it removes the possibility of objective moral reasoning and reduces morality to mere preference.

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So should we go back to enslaving people because God said it’s okay?

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But to answer your question, God tolerated a lot of bad things in patience towards a fallen and sinful people. Slavery is not a positive good, nor is it commanded by God generally

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Doesn’t sound very objective to me

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the members of any given society would decide what advances the interests of their society.

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so Red China abandons long view 1 child policy.

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quote:In regards to Jesus, it’s an argument from silence. Not true, he addresses it in Matthew 15/Mark 7.

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I guess I should clarify. The left attempts to make an argument from silence. I did state that Jesus did speak on human sexuality.

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Doesn’t sound very objective to me

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It’s because you don’t understand biblical and theological principles about God, man, sin, and righteousness.

Slavery isn’t inherently evil/immoral depending on what it looks like and what it is used for. For instance, a government imprisoning a law-breaker is a form of just slavery, but the government has vested authority to punish wickedness like that. A private citizen kidnapping for the purpose of chattel slavery is an example of sin that should not be tolerated, and that wasn’t even tolerated in ancient Israel.

God’s character is the basis for objective moral reasoning and ultimately the basis for our human rights as image-bearers of God. God’s character doesn’t change, and therefore the foundations of moral reasoning do not change.

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Obviously, the members of any given society would decide what advances the interests of their society.

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You're discussing pragmatism, not morality as understood by most people. Pragmatism can get you to a goal; it does not make a judgement on whether the goal is worthy or not. Poison showers for Jews were pragmatic.