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What Objective Morality Means Objective — originating outside of a mind.
Thirty thousand years of demon worship taught humans to subjectivize everything, because sin is a conflict with objective reality. Later, when God started creating religion, humans assumed he too was subjectively synthesizing morality. Not so.
Christ taught the objective origins of morality. He taught how to determine morality from the objective lessons of life (like studying science). Christ created science by teaching the standards of objectivity. Atheists didn't create science; they are in the process of destroying science due to their corrupt standards. The Greeks and Romans didn't create science; they were too corrupt. You say I left out one of the alternatives—God's alternative, which is faith. No Virginia, there are only two alternatives: objective and subjective. When you assume God is not objective, you are mixing up your concept of God with the demons. There is no way to determine the difference between God and satan besides objective tests. Faith must be based on objective reality, or it is the religion of the demons, not the religion of the creator. There is no such thing as life which is not based on objective reality. To oppose objective reality as the basis of life is to say matter was created by some crazy who screwed everything up. Paul tries to make that argument (Rom 6,7,8). But material life is not as screwed up as Paul. It serves the purpose of overcoming sin through objective reality. Objective reality creates and defines life—material and spiritual. Therefore, it defines the morality that sustains life. Science creates light, in a stumbling and gradual way, where there is darkness. It does that through the study of objective reality, which allows evolution of knowledge to occur. Objective reality is the medium and substance of life. Both material and spiritual life are made up of objective reality. (Objective means outside of one's own mind. Subjective means originating from within oneself.) Spiritual life needs to be studied as objective reality, just as material life does. To study the objective reality of spiritual life creates light in religion, just as occurs in science. Constructive Christians have been evaluating religious concepts in terms of the objective evidence. They evolved an advance state of awareness of religious and moral knowledge. The result is a rational analysis of morality and proper relationship to God. That result is about the opposite of fundamentalist literalism or authoritarian infallibility, as found in Catholicism and elsewhere. Adherents of both contradict objective reality because of something they supposedly know which supposedly originates with God. It originates in their own minds based on their own assumptions and biases, and it conflicts with objective reality. A lot of persons, particularly atheists, assume they can determine their own moral values (or ethics). Doing that creates subjective morality, which means it comes out of their minds. But the only morality of relevance, which Christ taught, consists of objective laws. Objective means the laws cannot be changed, not even by God, and they need to be studied and understood. Christ harped relentlessly on the need to study and understand morality, while he taught what it is (Mat 15:10)(Luke 12:57)(Mark 8:17,18). Only objective reality can be studied and understood. An example of subjectivity would be a cult leader requiring followers to stand on their heads for an hour per day and eat tree leaves. Having no relationship to objective reality, it could not be studied or understood. Similarly, if morality were arbitrarily created by God, it would have no relationship to objective reality and could not be studied or understood. Since people can determine what morality is through study, and they keep drawing the same conclusions throughout cultures, it is objective. Certainly, there are questions, but they are resolvable because of the objectivity of morality. Morality certainly involves subjective concerns, but the relevance is other person's subjective concerns, not one's own. The subjective concerns of other persons are objective to oneself. A person has to look at other persons besides himself to determine morality. "Other than self" means objective. It's like looking at other automobiles to drive safely. What does that say about removing the plank from one's own eye and following the Ten Commandments? Introspection is a defining difference between moral and immoral persons. But in looking back at oneself, one must determine what it is he is doing to other persons. Otherwise, it is selfishness. The Ten Commandments cannot be followed without a concern for other persons. Personal morality cannot be improved except through social morality, because focusing on oneself only creates more selfishness and does not indicate how one relates to others. Of course, subjective reactions are inherent in everything humans do. And the end results are subjective. But human interactions require objectivity as the standard that sustains life, and all subjectivity must be secondary to objective realities and laws.
The plain and simple standard that creates objectivity in communication is to provide the explanations and specifics that allow the objective truth to be established. |