You have not shown me an argument yet. I claim that you do not derive your morality from the Bible. I claim that you rather already have morality and pick the parts of the Bible which are congruent with said pre-existing beliefs when looking to the Bible for moral instruction.
Your counter seems to be limited to 'nuh-uh.' I am not sure what I am disallowing from you here. I AM disallowing your assumption that what you are doing is derived from the Bible, yes. Of course I am. Because that is the entire point of the discussion; to determine if your belief on that front is accurate or not.
I am NOT trying to argue that your morality may or may not derive from God. You can be a moral person because of your God, or your belief in God, or whatever you like. That is not my problem here. My problem is that reading the Bible does not tell you what the God who has granted you said morality is like. Your (god-created?) internal morality tells you that independant of the Bible.
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Date: 2008-03-17 02:12 am (UTC)Your counter seems to be limited to 'nuh-uh.' I am not sure what I am disallowing from you here. I AM disallowing your assumption that what you are doing is derived from the Bible, yes. Of course I am. Because that is the entire point of the discussion; to determine if your belief on that front is accurate or not.
I am NOT trying to argue that your morality may or may not derive from God. You can be a moral person because of your God, or your belief in God, or whatever you like. That is not my problem here. My problem is that reading the Bible does not tell you what the God who has granted you said morality is like. Your (god-created?) internal morality tells you that independant of the Bible.