God’s righteousness is good. God is good in His entirety. There is nothing about God that is not good (Romans), this is basically saying that the goodness of God is a life-transforming truth and that we should use the words of God in are attitudes and actions. The Ten Commandments are the clear example of God setting the standards of what is morally right and wrong. We follow these laws that God has set because we believe that they show us are sins and if we follow these laws that we will be reward towards the light.
With god/s grounding the moral the foundation of the moral becomes arbitrary because it would only be good because god says its so. Also calling god good would not make any sense since he decided what good is or isn't, so how could he be good unless the moral was grounding him? If piety was a certain care of the god’s we could look to do always what is Pious and in return we would be worshiping/caring for the god/s if they exists. If the God’s are looking to something the “moral,piety” then if you act pious in your actions through life you will be in a way worshiping the god’s, because you are honoring what they already honer. The problem with this idea is when people think god grounds the moral
Just like a religious believer who states “god loves us” but can’t explain the contradiction of evil in the world, believers qualify their statements by explaining god’s love is not like humans love he calls this “death by a thousand qualifications”. Therefore religious language is meaningless. However religion has responded to the falsification principle. R.B Braithwaite argued that the falsification principle explains religious language as cognitive when it if in fact non cognitive and therefore cannot be falsified, religious language is therefore still meaningful. Hare also responds to the falsification principle, showing that religious statements are meaningful even though they cannot be falsified because they have a significant impact for the people using the statement.
One example of this was when Tituba was being questioned about conjuring the devil. The conversation ends up being all about god and how she wants nothing more than to bless him. Hale respects this and believes her, proving that faith to god surpasses anything and everything else. At least to the Puritans that it. Another significant value of the Puritans was pride.
Secular worldviews often see human relationships as self-serving with an ultimate goal of getting ahead of the other person for bettering on oneself. In contrast, a biblical worldview of human relationships seeks to serve others first and place God above all else. Romans 2:8 speaks on the ultimate fate for the “selfishly ambitious” who do not obey the Word of God. Throughout the Bible, there are several instances of the ultimate human relationship found in Scripture. For example, Mark 12:31 states, “ …’You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’” as Jesus’ proclamation of human relationships with one another and God.
Socrates asks the question for this is the pious thing being loved by the gods because it is pious or is it pious because it is loved by the gods? The first part of this question is putting stress on the act or thing that is being loved and not the gods. The second part says the gods love it first and that’s what makes it pious. Euthyphro finally says “I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean…” This refers back to is the pious thing loved because it is pious or is it pious because it is loved by the
The Divine Command Theory is the view that moral actions are those that conform to God's will. Charity, for example, is morally proper because God endorses it, and murder is wrong because God condemns it. But, where does God get these moral values? If they come from a still-higher power, he
“People should always be treated the same regardless of race or disability” The Catholic Church focuses on the idea of equality amongst all people. This idea can be supported or gone against even by the Catholic Church itself. Firstly, Jesus used the parable of the Good Samaritan to stress the importance of equality. In the parable, Jesus teaches that we should all be there for each other despite of their race because in the end, we were all created in God’s image and no one is therefore better than the other. Buddhists see disability as a consequence of a past life but what they mean by that is the joys and hardships are a consequence of karma and does not undermine equality.
Often the term "myth" is being misused to mean a supposedly dead religion and its teachings along the lines of saying that Zeus is a myth and Jesus is not, when Zeus is just as real to his worshippers as Jesus is to his. It has become a way to say, your religion is less valid than mine. I guess it's the way someone looks at religion in order to say all religions are a myth. No, I don't think all religions are a myth, because one has to be the truth. I'm catholic, and I really hope mine is true religion.
1 Corinthians 3:3 tells us "for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?" To be carnal is to behave like men, thus its opposite (spirituality) is simply to behave like God. Spirituality is simply being godly, or possessing godliness. A fine working definition of spirituality is knowing God so I can please God.