The answer to this question will vary. Some people are moral realists and hold that moral facts are objective facts that are out there in the world, these people believe that things are good or bad independently of us. Moral values such as goodness and badness are real properties of people in the same way that rough and smooth are properties of physical objects. This view is often referred to as cognitive language. Those who oppose cognitivists are called non cognitivists and they believe that when someone makes a moral statement they are not describing the world, but they are merely expressing their feelings and opinions, they believe that moral statements are not objective therefore they cannot be verified as true or false.
He has given us an immortal soul and through the gifts of intelligence and reason enables us to understand the order of things established in his creation. God has also given us a free will to seek and love what is true, good, and beautiful. Examples are Mark 7:15 and Romans 12:2. God has plans for us all. His plan for each person on earth is for us to prosper that is to have the most amazing life possible on earth.
Is Mackie’s argument from relativity compelling? Mackie’s ‘Ethics: Inventing right and wrong’ critically assesses the idea that there are, or even can be, objective moral truths, and exposits Mackie’s ‘moral relativist’ stance. I intend also in this essay to criticise the idea of moral objectivity, and to deal with the objections that could be potentially raised to a relativist stance. The most obvious task, it would seem, to begin with when assessing the idea of moral objectivity, is to come to an understanding about what is literally meant by ‘an objective moral truth’. The word objective immediately brings to mind a state of actual existence, as opposed to simply ideal existence.
Meta ethics tries to make sense of the terms and concepts used in ethical theories such as Utilitarianism and Natural Law. Some people believe that ethical language is extremely meaningful as they argue it is essential to be able to define terms such as “good” and “bad” before we can even begin to discuss ethical theories. However others disagree with this and argue that moral statements are subjective so are meaningless, as they cannot be described as either true or false. Those who hold cognitive theories about ethical language would argue that ethical statements are not meaningless as they are about facts, and can therefore be proved true or false. Ethical Naturalism is a cognitive theory of meta ethics which holds the belief that
The clear distinction between “punishing” and “punishment,” becomes absolutely essential in this case. The essence of hell is that it is a place for those who will be forever separated from God, His characteristics and His people. It is a one-time judgment with lasting consequences. It is not an eternal punishing; rather, a punishment that lasts for all eternity. Hell, Strobel argues, was created as the place for those whose decisions in life led to inevitable separation from God.
Richard Mount APA THEO 201-B33 LUO In spite of what man has done to God’s creation, He has not abandoned it. He continually preserves it and sustains it through His grace and providence. Men are still made in His image and mankind is still Gods greatest creation. Chapter I in Genesis tells us how God created the heavens and the earth. He loves that creation and still holds it all together.
However, He is also immanent, in that He cares for His creation, enough to reveal Himself to mankind. The God of Christian theism is distinct from the God of deism in that God is not merely the Being who created the universe, but is
In Virgil's underworld, everyone sins equally and therefore is entitled to equal punishment. From a religious perspective, the distinction between these levels is representative of the deadly sins which explains why Dante's underworld contains levels of hell and levels of sin, and this distinguishing characteristic means that the punishment for those sins is equitable for the sinner. One of the simplest lines written in Dante’s Inferno that encompasses the dismal feeling of entering the underworld is "All hope abandon, ye who enter here." (Inferno, Canto III). The
The epic of Dante teaches a lesson of how a person should live his or her life. Through The Inferno, Dante shows the consequences of specific sins a person can suffer. Dante uses imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices to emphasize how horrible the punishments can be. Canto V is full of details of the punishment in a way that one can feel their selves there. A theme that is conveyed throughout The Inferno is justice.
(Heb. 6:1 faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things not seen. I would answer the Axiological question by saying, “God is the creator of the for universe.” Not only does he creates everything, he is everything. So that means because God is of value, we are of value too.We have to always keep God center. (Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other Gods me.)