If doing good and being moral makes you feel good, then there’s your reason.
Do you have a desire to live outside of the law? I don’t. People that do feel that way, live that way.
What constitutes a scum-bag, is determined a lot by one’s current mores.
‘If doing good and being moral makes you feel good, then there’s your reason.’
Why do you believe that your feelings should be the basis for what may be right or wrong? And related to that, do you believe there is an ultimate, unchangeable standardof Right and Wrong? If so what is it?
I am sure, positively sure, that Mr Sandusky would tell you that doing what he did to those boys made him feel good, therefore that was reason enough to do it. Yet what he did was an abomination on may levels.
The law? Whose law? Mans law? When mans law becomes wrong, then it is wrong to live within it. Or, do you believe that regardless, whatever mans law says, that is the way it is and we should comply?
‘What constitutes a scum-bag, is determined a lot by one’s current mores.’
Current mores? There is the crux. There is the problem people have with a holy, just, Law-giving God. What was wrong thousands of years ago is still wrong today. Or more correctly, that which God declared wrong is still wrong today.
Do you believe it is proper or even smart to rely on mans changing standards and morals to base your life on?
I believe this is correct: Trust in the Lord (and all that He is) and lean not to your own understanding.