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| Jul 19, 2016 at 20:59 | answer | added | byserpas | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 17, 2016 at 14:04 | comment | added | user3017 | It's perfectly well defined for God, but not for us. We are finite beings who cannot grasp every possible decision in the universe. Therefore we have to try to seek God's heart, so to speak. If we often have difficulty understanding our own decisions, it's to be expected that we would have difficulty understanding God's. That's especially true because of our sinful nature; we often don't want to know what is right. That leads to suppressing the voice of conscience, which, in turn, makes it increasingly difficult to recognize the truth. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | Aashiq Parker | So you're saying that while an absolute determination like God can exist and hence can tell you whether something is right or wrong, the means by which this determination arrives at a decision is not absolutely defined? Isn't that a bit of a contradiction though? Let's say we're able to accumulate every single decision or act in the universe, then by the aforementioned logic, God would be able to classify them. But that then implies that we'd have some sort of model of the universe that is absolutely well defined. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | user3017 | It would be more accurate to say that God determines what is right and wrong for all people. However, many make the mistake of thinking that such an absolute determination is absolutely well defined. The fact is that ethics is a very difficult subject, because it's often not possible to know with any degree of precision how God would evaluate a given circumstance. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 13:28 | comment | added | Aashiq Parker | @PédeLeão Hmmm, I see your point but I'm not assuming absolutes exists based on peoples' opinion on rape or even opinions in general. While rape is maybe a bit extreme (to us) I'm just using an example it to pose the bigger question of whether you can draw an absolute line between right and wrong that applies to all people which is essentially what religion does, does it not? Also, "almost everyone" is not "everyone", which contradicts the idea of absoluteness. Are those good books to start reading for someone who hasn't read anything on related topics but would like to start? | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | user3017 | Are you concluding that absolutes don't exists based on a rapist's opinion? Doesn't that mistakenly assume that the existence of absolutes implies that people must acknowledge them without exception? What makes more sense is to say that absolutes exists because God exists, and that people are often mistaken as to the true nature of what those absolutes are. We can deny and suppress the voice of conscience. The fact that almost everyone agrees that rape is wrong is evidence of the existence of absolutes, which, in turn, only makes sense assuming the existence of God. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 12:25 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | An "absolute" notion of absolute is hard to manage... We may think to ethics: see Kant, physics; see Absolute Theories of Space and Motion or hegelian Absolute Spirit. | |
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