2015
Not quite. It’s not all just opinion. The term “morality” is meaningless if it isn’t based on a foundation society can reasonably agree upon. That’s what you forgot to do. Among modern philosophers, that foundation is human well-being or flourishing. To use your example, we can objectively say that stealing that candy was wrong (with no other factors at play). Why? Because 1. it’s harming the business and its proprietor, and 2. the girl will grow to perpetuate this kind of action, and 3. empathy will put you in said proprietor’s shoes. It doesn’t matter that “it’s just a piece of candy, so who cares.”
What if the Bible is like the falling tree in the forest and people don’t want to hear it? From your point of view it may seem the Bible is not the standard/authority or something objective. But what if it is? Maybe people have strayed so far and distanced themselves from believing what it says that they are almost like someone who denies a tree could be falling somewhere because they can’t hear it? There are so many trees falling that would point a person to Jesus, but no wants to hear! No one is putting themselves in a place of learning that they could learn and be educated about what God’s word actually says. And to see and hear testimonies of those who claim God’s power has worked and is working in their lives! The evidence/proof is all around, but no one seems to want to take the time to be like the guy in the movie Case For Christ and try to piece things together and see if it’s true or not.
j W :
if there is no god than you are right.but I’m sure you wouldn’t want to live your life with mankind doing whatever they want whenever.