Answer: If the Bible isn’t the Christian’s source for morality, then the question needs to be asked, “What should be?”
The
Christian worldview is based on two foundational axioms:
1) God exists, and
2) God has spoken to us in the Bible.

If these two presuppositions aren’t the starting point in a Christian worldview, then we’re just like everyone else, trying to find objectivity in a sea of subjectivity.

According to the Bible, man was created in God’s image. Part of that image makes man a moral being. We are moral agents who make moral choices and are able to differentiate between right and wrong. The basis upon which we differentiate between right and wrong is our knowledge of God’s law, and that knowledge comes from two sources—revelation and conscience.

Revelation is self-explanatory. God gave a commandment to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He gave Ten Commandments to the Israelites after the exodus in Sinai, and Jesus boiled those Ten Commandments down to two essential commandments—love God and love your neighbor. All of these represent God’s revelation of His law, which is simply a reflection of His moral character to His people.

The Bible also says that God wrote His law on our hearts (Romans 2:15 ). This is conscience. In other words, even without God’s revelation in the commandments, we intuitively know God’s law based on the fact that we were created in His image. However, due to the fall ( Genesis 3 ), that image is marred and disfigured, including our conscience. So even though we know God’s law through our conscience, we tend to distort it to our advantage. That is why we need revelation.

The Bible, which contains God’s revealed moral will in His law and commandments, is His revelation to His people. As such, the Bible becomes our source of morality because the Bible is the very Word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:16 ; 2 Peter 1:21 ).

If the Christian wants to know God’s will, he turns to the Bible. If the Christian wants to discern right from wrong, he turns to the Bible.

What happens if the Christian doesn’t turn to the Bible as his or her source for morality? There are many ways to answer this question, but the bottom line is we all tend to trust our conscience, whether implicitly or explicitly.

The human conscience can be likened to an alarm system; it warns us when we transgress our moral standard. The catch is our conscience is only as good as the moral standard that informs it. If it’s not the Bible, then we inevitably inform our conscience by various other means.

The current reigning “competitor” to biblical morality in our society is social consensus . In other words, our morality is shaped and changed by the culture around us. It should be easy to see that if social consensus is our moral compass, then we have built our morality on a foundation of shifting sand.

Social consensus is just that—a consensus. It’s a picture of the general social mores of the day. A generation or two ago, homosexuality, divorce and adultery were still not accepted, even considered sinful. Nowadays, both homosexuality and divorce are normal and adultery isn’t as stigmatized as it once was.

Basically, what we have with social consensus is what happened to the Israelites a couple generations after conquering the Promised Land: “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6 ).

The people abandoned God, and within two generations they were doing what was evil in the sight of God.

So why should the Bible be our source for morality?

Because without it, we are like ships adrift at sea. At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord said these words: “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built His house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock” (Matthew 7:24-25 ).

The Word of God, the Bible, is the only rock upon which to build morality.

33"But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34"They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,"

Jeremiah



The very bible that you are claiming is contradicting you here bro. How do you want to square this circle?

Only you ask kwestion only you answer the kwestion

It is easy to know a society which follows the bible laws or the Koran. The laws in Old Testament part of the bible makes up 90% of laws Christians follow. They are not needed in today's society as we are past that era of jungle reasoning.

But God has been giving different names and softer personality,the God character changes from time to time. But then we hear God never changes? He does big time

First the bible said he created the world and literally spoke to humans in physical form, then as time went on in the New Testament he now speak as the human conscience. The later is the interesting part, God is now our conscience ? But we do know man is ruled by his conscience of which helps him determine what is right or wrong.

The God ideology of the bible seem to be a product of psychological evolution.... Evolved from an easily annoyed God to a loving God, from a God who readily encouraged stonning humans to death to a God of forgiveness and peace. The God who killed Amorites, the people of Jericho for bring anti- Israel to a God of the Good Samaritan, an eye for an eye God to a God of love your neighbour as yourself?

Personally I give kudos to those behind the underground change of script of this god from generation to generation. I couldn't have done it better. I think as man progressed he evolved just as his God/gods

We cannot apply the theories of 18 centuries to today's inventions. Cancer researches of 1960 cannot be used for this present time as we have found better researches. Same applies to laws from the holy books. Back the it was moral to stone witches to death but today we are tolorent and gay people are being seen as humans.

But back to the topic, laws are for humans to determine. A highly evolved society will need no laws. We will expect them to be fully evolved to loving beings and form that heaven on earth society we all dream of. At that point there will be no need of a god, unless we want to remain the planet of apes.

Man will always need to believe in a God.