On the Universality of Ethics

I’d first like to say, the Bible is 100% true. Based on the evidence, and everything else, and based on the ethics it describes. But, the question is whether we need the Bible, necessarily to know what’s right or wrong. And that’s what I’m dealing with in this. Not whether the Bible is true. Because the Bible is perfectly true.

But, the most solid foundation for morality, is the ethics of Logos. The Bible describes that ethics. But so does Confucius, Mo Tsu, Lao Tsu, Socrates, Maimonides, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras… the list goes on.

It’s not the Bible we need to be moral. We already have morality wired into us. It’s in our genetic make up.

But, Secular Ethics—such as Peter Singer—can be wrong. For instance, Peter Singer wants infanticide to be an option up to thirty days after birth. Secular ethics also says that transitioning a child at the age of 5 is not only acceptable, but it’s immoral to oppose such a thing.

Do you understand? Humans are wired to value life, property and God. But, secular ethics not only makes you stop valuing life, it makes you think property is an evil thing, and it makes you blasphemous toward God. As, it says “God’s a moral monster.” While they do the same thing. “Why is it okay for God to have Israel slaughter babies in war?” While they turn around, and try to make it okay to inject Babies with Pentobarbital, or even healthy adults who simply have mental issues.

You see how the roles reversed? It makes God justified, that they hypocritically do the same things. They get mad at God for flooding the world, or detailing the realities of war, while they form legal methods of performing murder on innocent victims.

So, I don’t think the Bible is necessary for a foundation of Morality. I think morality is founded on the Natural Law which governs human nature, and causes flourishing within us. But, for sure, the Bible is a record of that Morality, from the first establishment of Law, to the framework of Christ and the Prophets.

The Bible is very much a history of Morality, from the earliest burgeons of law, to the Universal Ethics found by Christ. Which, the Old Covenant Morality was justified. You infringe on someone else, you do deserve a death penalty. But, that’s what Jesus saves us from. Not so we may continue on sinning, but so we can have a pure conscience, and do good, even though we may have been greatly evil in the past.