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.
Just wow. That whole ‘belief’ system you just articulated is wrong. It is wrong because it allows for for no standard beyond ‘what we feel’ which of course will change.
Today ‘we’ feel that homosexuality is ok, but have yet to ‘feel’ that pederasty is ok. But that will also change, given the course we are on. When it ‘feels’ right to do so, ‘we’ will give our children up to this perversion too.
This ‘belief system’ allows for lying, and cheating, any number of things, based on our ‘feelings’, no standard of ‘This Is Right’ or ‘This Is Wrong’.
How can you possibly believe that that system is in any way a positive thing? You invoke God as wanting it that way, that things are as they are because He wants it that way, and in the same breath, disallow the very Book, and His very Son both of which tell us what He wants and tell us what IS Right and Wrong.
Relativism IS the poison that leads us to believe we know better than God.