davidhume1:

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If you don't fear anything in life, i beg you in the name of all that is good to PLEASE fear the bolded in any religious person you come across!

That "ought-ness" has led to the death of over a hundred million native Americans, millions of jews in the dark ages, and several pagan communities all over Europe (directly or indirectly)!

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As far as I am concerned, I only have 7 senses to discern the truth. Sight, hearing, touching or feeling, smelling, tasting, conscience and the Word of God.

OLAADEGBU:

As far as I am concerned, I only have 7 senses to discern the truth. Sight, hearing, touching or feeling, smelling, tasting, conscience and the Word of God.

The last one is a work of fiction. That's like living one's life according to the Vedas. Except in your case, there is an evil protagonist.

Weah96:

The last one is a work of fiction. That's like living one's life according to the Vedas. Except in your case, there is an evil protagonist.

That leaves you with 6 senses and that's if they are properly functioning. Run your 6th sense, your conscience, through the 7th sense and see whether they will make sense to you. ==> www.NeedGod .com

Do atheists have a moral grounding? Not are they moral, but should they be?

OLAADEGBU:


Do atheists have a moral grounding? Not are they moral, but should they be?

We are surrounded by unseen and rarely spoken about "laws." Take for example music. It is painfully obvious when someone sings off key. We intuitively know that something is wrong, unless we ourselves are tone deaf. So it is morally. We are all subject to the moral Law. We intuitively know that lying, stealing, the killing of the unborn, rape, adultery, fornication, lust, hatred, etc., are wrong. However, some are morally deaf. The Ten Commandments brings our hearing back. They stir the conscience to do its God-given duty. Listen to it. It's not your enemy…and neither are we.

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https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 4 November 2013 at 02:00 ·

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"If that were true [that I have a God-given conscience], my conscience would match the morality of the Bible, but it doesn't. Would your innate morality tell you to keep the Sabbath holy, if you had never heard of the Bible?" Madeleine Tudor

Conscience can easily be silenced. Many dull its voice and commit adultery and theft without a sense of guilt. Others even rape and murder and have no remorse. However, your question about the Sabbath is a good one.

I'm sure that you know that ignorance of the law is no excuse. You can violate civil law without knowing it and still be prosecuted, and the same applies with the moral Law. You may be ignorant of the fact that because God gave you your life, He requires that you give Him back one day in seven. But your ignorance of the Law is no excuse. Did you know that we are commanded to love God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength? Have you done that? It gets even worse. God's Law commands that we be morally perfect (see Matthew 5:48).

Now you know the Law. Now you know how much you have sinned against God by violating the First of the Ten Commandments. Add to that lying, stealing, blasphemy, adultery, plus the many sins of the heart that God sees--such as lust, selfishness, hatred, greed, envy, etc., and you will suddenly see your need of God's mercy. Once you have His forgiveness through trust in Jesus, you will have everlasting life given to you as a free gift (see Romans 6:23). If you are interested in escaping Hell and living forever, check out: www.needGod. com

https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 15 November 2014 ·

OLAADEGBU:
Question: "Can an atheist be a good moral person?"

Answer: Can an atheist act in moral and ethical ways? Certainly, he can. All humans still retain the image of God upon them, even after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. The image of God was effaced at the fall, but it was not erased, and so man still understands right and wrong no matter how many try to say otherwise. Even atheists react to this inherent knowledge of right and wrong, some even to the extent of living exemplary lives.

C.S. Lewis put it this way: if a man sees another in danger, the first instinct is to rush to help (altruism). But a second voice intervenes and says, “No, don’t endanger yourself,” which is in keeping with self-preservation. But then a third voice comes into play and says, “No, you ought to help.” Where does that third voice come from, asks Lewis? This is what is referred to as the “ought-ness” of life. Morality is what people do, but ethics describe what people ought to do. And yes, people know what they ought to do, but that doesn’t mean that they always act according to that knowledge.

The difference between the atheist and the Christian in this sense is that the atheist may act ethically for certain reasons (e.g., not wanting to go to jail, it disrupts social order, it makes them look good to others, etc.), but he has no ultimate reason for acting ethically because there is no ultimate moral authority that exists over each sphere of his life. Without this ultimate authority, each atheist defines morality on his own terms, although his morality is influenced by the remnants of morality from the image of God within, along with the strictures and constraints of the culture and society in which the atheist exists.

The Christian, on the other hand, acts morally out of the knowledge of the moral law given by God in His Word and a love for the Law-giver Himself. In addition, that knowledge is continually increased and personalized by the indwelling Spirit of God, whose task it is to bring the Christian “into all truth” (John 16:13). From within believers, He directs, guides, comforts, and influences us, as well as producing in us the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). To the atheist who is without the Spirit, God’s truth is “foolishness,” because it is “spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14), and the only fruit of righteousness is self-righteousness, not the righteousness of Christ.

When confronted with a situation that demands both the Christian and the atheist to make moral choices, a situation in which societal constraints are removed, the reaction of each will be vastly different. If a society deems it morally acceptable to kill unborn babies, for instance, the atheist sees no reason to oppose the practice. His own “moral law” even tells him it’s the compassionate thing to do in cases where the child is the result of rape or incest. The Christian, however, knows abortion is wrong because his moral choices are built upon the moral Law-giver who has declared all human life to be sacred because it is created in the image of God. The Law-giver has proclaimed, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13) and, for the Christian, there’s the end of it.

So can an atheist act ethically? Certainly, but he has no ultimate reason to do so and no ultimate authority to look to in order to ensure his line is indeed straight and unbendable.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/atheist-morality.html#ixzz39iSH3Qo8

Good question.