No. Compare and contrast with color preference. There is not, and never has been, a color that is objectively the best color.
This is not true for morality. Even in your last example. Killing another human is understood to be wrong in the way that "blue is the best color" is not. We have exceptions and caveats to "killing another human is wrong"--such as in self-defense or as punishment--but again that does not prove relativity. We can't even make a statement like 'Blue is the best color' because such a statement is nonsense and we recognize it, at least when stated objectively.
If morals were truly objective, humans saying "killing is wrong" would be equally ridiculous.
So, in 1 Corinthians it seems homosexuals are as bad as the greedy, adulterers (how ironic Mr Trump), the "sexually immoral", whatever that means, thieves, drunkards, slanderers (more irony) or swindlers.
Republicans, the party of greed, telling everyone how bad gay people are.... oh my.
"Thou shall not kill"
" they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."
And the Lord spoke all these words: I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to
And God#GodHebrew: Elohim spoke all these words, saying, I am Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other go
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Darby's Translation 1890
"13 Thou shalt not kill."
Seems like it's more modern books that have decided that "thou shalt not kill" is a little inconvenient. They like killing. Killing animals. Killing criminals etc.
But then that's the problem with the Bible isn't it. Parts of it say one thing, other parts say something else and people pick and choose whatever's convenient for them.
And the Lord spoke all these words: I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to
And God#GodHebrew: Elohim spoke all these words, saying, I am Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other go
www.bible.com
Darby's Translation 1890
"13 Thou shalt not kill."
Seems like it's more modern books that have decided that "thou shalt not kill" is a little inconvenient. They like killing. Killing animals. Killing criminals etc.
But then that's the problem with the Bible isn't it. Parts of it say one thing, other parts say something else and people pick and choose whatever's convenient for them.
1John 3:9
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
1John 3:9
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Warning to the Rich - Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up...
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
No. Compare and contrast with color preference. There is not, and never has been, a color that is objectively the best color.
This is not true for morality. Even in your last example. Killing another human is understood to be wrong in the way that "blue is the best color" is not. We have exceptions and caveats to "killing another human is wrong"--such as in self-defense or as punishment--but again that does not prove relativity. We can't even make a statement like 'Blue is the best color' because such a statement is nonsense and we recognize it, at least when stated objectively.
If morals were truly objective, humans saying "killing is wrong" would be equally ridiculous.
There is no comparison between behaviors and colors.
We as a society decide which behaviors are acceptable. Those acceptable behaviors change as societies change.
And I never said morals were objective I said morals are relative and therefore subjective.
And even those caveats on killing are relative.
It's OK for the government to kill for punishment but not OK for you to kill a person as punishment
It's OK for the government to put a gun in your hand and tell you to murder people in a foreign country but not OK for you to do that same thing as an individual.
There are not caveats they are justifications and all justifications are relative
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Warning to the Rich - Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up...
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
There is no comparison between behaviors and colors.
We as a society decide which behaviors are acceptable. Those acceptable behaviors change as societies change.
And I never said morals were objective I said morals are relative and therefore subjective.
And even those caveats on killing are relative.
It's OK for the government to kill for punishment but not OK for you to kill a person as punishment
It's OK for the government to put a gun in your hand and tell you to murder people in a foreign country but not OK for you to do that same thing as an individual.
There are not caveats they are justifications and all justifications are relative
Back in time it was okay to kill your children, cook and eat them? No justification, remember, because it was acceptable.
Back in time it was okay to steal?
Back in time it was okay to lie to your loved ones?
You are making a flawed argument. You are saying because some things have been more or less acceptable in some societies over time, there are NO moral objective standards.
In truth you just really need there to be no moral objective standards.
Back in time it was okay to kill your children, cook and eat them? No justification, remember, because it was acceptable.
Back in time it was okay to steal?
Back in time it was okay to lie to your loved ones?
You are making a flawed argument. You are saying because some things have been more or less acceptable in some societies over time, there are NO moral objective standards.
In truth you just really need there to be no moral objective standards.
People are usually loathe to kill their own children because of evolutionary reasons not moral reasons.
And there are too many societies to count that had no qualms about killing children.
US soldiers used to stomp in the skulls of Native American babies so as not to waste a bullet.
And are you really so naive that you don't understate that lying is as much a human behavior as breathing?
We accept lying at all levels of society. We all lie every single day. And do you really think that in socieites where women were little more than chattel that lying to your wife was considered immoral?
That last sentence is ridiculous. There have always been morals as defined by society and there always will be. The only thing that is a fact is that those morals will change.
There actually might be a time when the earth is so overcrowded and we are warring over resources that population control will need to be implemented and it will be commandeered immoral to have more than 1 child.