How do the religious know what is right and wrong when they are defined by some antiquated text?

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*Abstract-Mindser Dec 8, 2012

Consider if you will, the following counterthread.

Sacred texts are by definition, static and unchanging, with many of them having a notice of dire consequences if they are modified in any matter.

However, morality and society is NOT static, changing with the flow of time and technology.

So the question as stated in the title above is now presented formally for discussion.

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~KillianSeraphim Dec 31, 2012 Student General Artist

Simple: experimentation. Part of what I love about the Bible, is that it is filled with people who put their religion to the test, and part of what I love about my God, is His willingness to be tested.

~Titanium-Alex Dec 21, 2012

Well, when you get right down to it most religions teach the same stuff:
Don't do stuff to other people you wouldn't want done to yourself, don't sleep around, don't cheat, don't lie, don't kill, don't steal. Et cetera.

That's just your basic moralities. If people want to build on them and make them gods they might as well. It's the way of humanity, I suppose. We can't explain something, so we make something up which seems to make sense to us. Thousands of years later we've found out more about the world and we can explain those things, but some of the beliefs stick around in traditions and religions. Not everything is based around texts.

I'm not sure if I'm opposing you or backing you up. Well, I'm just stating my opinions, people don't have to listen.

^neurotype Dec 16, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

The text is static, but the interpretations aren't? I mean, Jewish scholarship is noted for being awesome, as one example of it happening with a monotheistic text.

*Abstract-Mindser Dec 18, 2012

Perhaps so.

!Ink-Robertson Dec 15, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Morality being static is your opinion as well as others being vice versa.

!Ink-Robertson Dec 15, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Sorry, Not static

~der-freishutz Dec 15, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

the lords word is timeless. just as the command "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is. are you doubting that kindness and basic morals do not apply anymore?

*Abstract-Mindser Dec 15, 2012

If its timeless, then what was before it was writ?

!Ink-Robertson Dec 15, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Still the Word. Have you ever read any Religous Texts, annotate them?

*Abstract-Mindser Dec 15, 2012

But how could the word, record of the word, and such exist if the concept of written word or oral tradition didn't exist? What of the time before man? How did they that this written word existed before the first particle?

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