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Morality - where is it written?

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  Some Christians  claim that justification for their morality is based not only on Gods word, the bible, but that God has also written his moral law on their heart - and - on the hearts of all people . They also make the claim that atheists have no justification for their morality - and - can't or won't admit that they borrow their morality from Gods word (moral law), which is also written on the hearts of atheists as well - and - that is why atheists are just as moral as Christians - because - God has written his moral law on the hearts of all people, including atheists. Romans 2:14-15: When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts , as their own conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them . . . The Problem - if Gods moral law is "written" on my "heart...

Let's talk about Numbers Chapter 5 . . .

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. . . beginning at verse 11, concerning a jealous husband: 11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them:   We know right away that the Lord (supposedly) is telling Moses exactly what to say to His followers, the "children of Israel".  We know that the following instructions come directly from God (if he exists). 12 cont. If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;   Based on this verse, it seems that the instructions that will follow are specifically for when a wife commits  adultery - BUT - there is no witness to this act of adultery.  It seems at the onset that these instructions are assuming that the wife has indeed committed adultery but hasn't been caught in the act.  It seems as though it is assu...

Believeth!

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Any religion that REQUIRES a person to believe certain (or all) aspects or claims of that religion, should be avoided .  Don't tell me that I MUST believe anything.    I don't believe anything simply because I am told to believe them, no matter what the threat if I don't believe.  I believe things that I have become convinced are true, or at least convinced are very plausible.   If your religion REQUIRES you to believe this: Or believe this: Or this: Or this: . . . then you are stuck in a high-control cult.  Please don't try to get me to join your cult. My beliefs are driven by facts - not the other way around. ~unknown The time to believe something is when sufficient evidence has been presented. ~unknown . . . free thought means that you’re literally free to believe whatever makes sense to you, and you’re free to change your mind when it doesn’t make sense anymore. You’re neither damned nor saved according to anything you do or do not believe, beca...

Time and Distance

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  A light-year is a unit of distance, not of time.  It is the distance light travels in one year, which is about 5.9 trillion miles.   For example - if a distant star is 10 light years from Earth, the distance is 59 trillion miles, and the light that it emits takes 10 years to reach Earth - so when looking at that star, we are seeing light that was emitted 10 years earlier.  This is math and physics. Our Sun ( Photographed through my telescope during the eclipse - 2017 ) Our sun is almost 92 million miles from Earth  ( 0.00001581 light years ) .  The light from our sun takes just over 8 minutes to travel to Earth.   This is math and physics - if you are a "Young Earth" bible believing Christian,  do you accept this math or do you dispute it ? Proxima Centauri (circled in red above) is the closest star to Earth after our Sun.  It is 4.25 light years from Earth.  The light from  Proxima Centauri   takes 4 years and ...