‘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.
I believe our feelings are the basis for what we believe to be right or wrong, ie our conscience. Since we are all different individuals, that is why things appear right or wrong, to some. I believe God instills in each of us our personal sense of what is right or wrong. So no, I do not believe there is a standard.
Mans laws are defined for groups of people derived from the current mores within the parameters of when and where in history he lives. They change with time and situations, they are relative. Each man still has their own sense of right or wrong. Since we are individuals, it stands to reason that any one law, is not going to be readily accepted by all. We work from there. We learn to live with each other, constantly tweaking and compromising.
If everyone agreed that what you say was declared by God, things would of course, be different. God did not, obviously, make us that way, as not everyone believes the same.
We base our lives on what God has instilled in us, but we live in the real world, with different individuals that have different moral codes. That is reality.
I believe our understanding comes from the Lord.