That morals and ethics are concrete, and can be observed.
You might ask them, “Well why do you need God?” Well… that’s a good question.
Humans are exceptionally bad at forming moral systems. They fail in ever so many ways, and there’s the written ordinance, and what actually is, that makes things even more difficult.
So, I’d think at the establishment of man’s first laws—which are in the Bible, in the Torah, in books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy—we have a record of man trying to form a basis for morality. And we see in the Torah, a rigid morality that would kill every man, woman and child on the Earth. But, then we also have the Ten Commandments. Which were scribed by God’s fingers. So, Moses broke the first tablet, and the second were made out of Sapphire, or Lapis Lazule, out of God’s heavenly temple… and God gave these Laws, the only Laws we’ve received directly from God to that point. Maybe the other laws and commandments were created by Abraham in Mesopotamia, through committee, but the Clean and Unclean were given by God’s command to Adam and Eve, but then was abolished in Christ’s death and resurrection. So, then, God in the Flesh came to Earth, and lived a perfect example for us to follow. And He taught a perfect law.
So, why do we need this example? It’s so people are capable of understanding right from wrong. Without God’s living example, or without God’s finger scribing the Law in the Ten Commandments, we couldn’t know right from wrong.
Why? Because man is a very bad authority. We confuse the most basic things like Gender, and we turn rudimentary moral laws that should be like counting, into abstract algebra and Transcendental equations.
So, this fact remains… we need God to order and provide the world with a bedrock of truth. Without which, we cannot have truth, unless God established it. Which He did twice, with Moses and the Ten Commandments, and came in bodily form through His son Jesus Christ.
Maybe it’s because, like in Trigonometry, there’s no algebraic way to get Sine and Cosine without already having the measurements and angles. You just have to have the right measurements, to do the formulas. And Christ is that measurement. He's the standard. That without, we can’t do the rest of the math. And God had to set that measurement in place, for us to do all the other more complicated things. As God had to be the measurement, so we could do the more complicated logic. Without which, we’d have nothing to measure it with, and therefore, would be without knowledge on how to do the more complicated logic.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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