Liberate wrote:
The scriptures are not a series of rules and regulations that dictate your daily behaviour the new testament is about a spiritual relationship, this is precisely the type of legalism to the point of stupidity that Jesus spoke about, if you need to be told how many pieces of toilet tissue to use, and what to wear when you are using it or how old a girl must be before you consumate a marriage you are simply a legalised slave being brainwashed from your God given common sense.
Common sense is not as common as the term implies.
A legal ruling on the age of marriage is not supidity as you would call it, on the contrary in a world were Men can easily take advantage of Women such a legal ruling is highly neccessary.
A ruling on using 3 pieces of toilet-paper is trivial, but marriage is something much more needing of specific rulings than a person's potty-training.
Liberate wrote:The bible is silent on a lot of things but it can be gauged using some common sense wether what you are doing is right or wrong, it does not talk about lesbianism, neither does it talk about necrophilia or hermaphrodites. The underlying theme which Jesus said in Matt. 7:12 (and Luke 6:31) ..."So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Common sense isn't as common as the term implies.
To say we can all go around using our common sense to judge between right and wrong does not reassure us that we are doing right in the eyes of God
Liberate wrote:On the contrary our secular morality is derived at least for those in the west from mainly christian values.
But where are Christian values derived from?