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Where Do You Get Your Morals From?: Lot's Story (i.imgur.com)
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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

then why are millions of people still using an incredibly outdated book as a "source" of their "morality"

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They largely only study and follow parts of that book. The entire thing doesn't hold equal weight to them.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then they're choosing which parts of the book to follow based on their own morality, disproving that the Bible is the source of their morality.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're grossly oversimplifying spirituality.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

then elaborate

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

That's kind of the whole point of Jesus existing. Jesus brought forth the new covenant. Before this, God was worshipped by sacrifices, strict rules, etc. In the old testament, the Jews(God's chosen) failed to keep God's law, and they were repeatedly punished for it.

The Messiah the Jews expected was going to be the savior and liberator of the Jews and "put them on top" so to speak.

Instead, Jesus offered salvation to all(gentiles). Clearly, Jesus and his new covenant stands in defiance of the old testament.

The old testament is mostly viewed in historical context.

[–] Syndic@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

That's a complete different question. But from the historical context the stuff in the Bible does make sense. After all it's written by people living in this reality.