12. Is the Bible a Good Moral Guide?
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Is Biblical morality perfect? If it isn't, would you want to know?
Chapters:
00:00-00:35 - Good Christian works
00:36-02:22 - Questioning the Bible's morality, not Christians'
02:23-08:07 - Some problems with the Bible's morality
08:08-10:32 - God's problematic moral decrees
10:33-13:32 - The issue of "might makes right"
13:33-15:36 - Problems with the Conquest of Canaan
15:37-17:04 - Original sin
17:05-18:14 - The perfect "advertising" set up
18:15-19:35 - Conclusion
Series Bibliography:
Barker, Dan - God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
Barker, Dan - Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
Buckser, Andrew and Glazier, Stephen D. - The Anthropology of Religious Conversion
Callahan, Tim - Secret Origins of the Bible
Carrier, Richard - “How We Know Daniel Is a Forgery”
Carrier, Richard - “Josephus on Jesus? Why You Can’t Cite Opinions Before 2014”
Carrier, Richard - Not the Impossible Faith
Carrier, Richard - On the Historicity of Jesus
Carrier, Richard - Sense and Goodness Without God
Conway, Flo and Siegelman, Jim - Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
Coogan, Michael D. - The Oxford History of the Biblical World
Copan, Paul - Is God a Moral Monster?
Craig, William Lane - Reasonable Faith
Currid, John D. And Chapman, David W. - The ESV Archaeology Study Bible
Dever, William G. - Did God Have a Wife?
Dever, William G. - Has Archaeology Buried the Bible?
Durkheim, Emile - The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Ehrman, Bart D. - Forged: Writing in the Name of God
Ehrman, Bart D. - Forgery and Counterforgery
Ehrman, Bart D. - God’s Problem
Ehrman, Bart D. - Heaven and Hell
Ehrman, Bart D. - How Jesus Became God
Ehrman, Bart D. - Jesus Before the Gospels
Ehrman, Bart D. - Jesus Interrupted
Ehrman, Bart D. - Lost Christianities
Ehrman, Bart D. - Misquoting Jesus
Ehrman, Bart D. - The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
Ehrman, Bart D. - The Triumph of Christianity
Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil Asher - The Bible Unearthed
Geisler, Norman L. And Howe, Thomas - The Big Book of Bible Difficulties
Geisler, Norman L. And Turek, Frank - I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
Hagglund, Martin - This Life
Ham, Ken, Ed. - Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions: Volume 1
Ham, Ken and Hodge, Bodie and Chaffey, Tim, Eds. - Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions: Volume 2
Harwood, William - Mythology’s Last Gods
Helms, Randel - Gospel Fictions
Helms, Randel - Who Wrote the Gospels?
Holden, Joseph M. and Geisler, Norman - The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible
Kennedy, Titus M. - Unearthing the Bible
Koukl, Gregory - Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Lewis, C.S. - A Grief Observed
Loftus, John W. - The Christian Delusion
Loftus, John W. - Christianity Is Not Great
Loftus, John W. - The End of Christianity
Loftus, John W. - Why I Became an Atheist
Loftus, John W. and Rauser, Randal - God or Godless?
MacDonald, Dennis - Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?
MacDonald, Dennis - The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
MacDonald, Dennis - Mythologizing Jesus
Matthews, Victor H. And Benjamin, Don C. - Old Testament Parallels
Mazar, Amihai - Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-586 BCE
McDowell, Josh and McDowell, Sean - Evidence That Demands a Verdict
McLaughlin, Rebecca - Confronting Christianity
Newberg, Andrew and Waldman, Mark Robert - Why We Believe What We Believe
Nicolaou, Corinna - A None’s Story
Nongbri, Brent - Before Religion
Shanks, Hershel - Ancient Israel
Stavrakopoulou, Francesca - God: An Anatomy
Strobel, Lee - The Case for Christ
Strobel, Lee - The Case for a Creator
Strobel, Lee - The Case for Faith
Wallace, J. Warner - Cold-Case Christianity
Wolff, Catherine - Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
ChristianAnswers.net - “Is the Bible Accurate Concerning the Existence and Destruction of the Walls of Jericho?”
Bright future, keep it going strong. If you think for yourself, better morals arrive for society
Appreciate the comment. Thanks for watching!
These are great videos keep them up you’re gonna blow up it doesn’t hate on individual Christians it just criticizes the hypocrisy in the Bible
Thanks for your comment! My hope and aim was to make a video series that walked Christians through the facts but did so in a compassionate way because I've been where they've been. I've been locked in the Christian ecosystem, scared to engage with "dangerous" information even when I had doubts. I've been scared that I was going to be made to feel stupid for my beliefs. This is a tough transition for people (it was for me and for many people I know), and it's one that deserves compassion - but also truth. Obviously a series like this won't resonate with everyone, but it's at least nice to hear feedback like yours. Thanks again!!
In answer to the question of 'is the Bible is a good base for a moral system?', I would say definitely not.
As you said, it does contain some good rules. But any book that can be used to justify everything from murder to slavery to torture is a TERRIBLE book for a moral system to be based on.
That's the nature of "normative" ethical systems, as you duly note. When "might makes right" is the law, it can lead to contradictory moral claims. "Don't kill - unless God tells you to, then you can definitely kill." Thanks for watching!
Id say there better things that predate Christianity i mean they always seem to act like rules and morals and order never existed before them😂
Comparative ethics is a fascinating field! We'll have more videos coming out on this topic in the future. Thanks for watching!