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Author Topic:   Why It Is Right To Do Good To Others
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Message 56 of 304 (404793)
06-09-2007 7:50 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Stile
06-05-2007 4:13 PM


Re-Good and Bad
It's been noted that without God, one cannot answer the question "Why is it right to do good?".
It could be better said, "If there is no God with punishment for not being good, "Why bother"?
Lets get on with Darwins theory of survival of the fittist, meanest, badest person, or groups of people on earth. Come to think of it, that seems to be exactly what we are doing.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/...ath_Rate/death_rate.html
1.78 DEATHS PER SECOND
107 DEATHS PER MINUTE
6,390 DEATHS PER HOUR
153,000 DEATHS PER DAY
56.0 MILLION DEATHS PER YEAR
3.9 BILLION DEATHS PER AVERAGE LIFETIME (70 YEARS)
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Presently:
1 person dies every 40 seconds of suicide.
1 person dies every 60 seconds of murder.
1 person dies every 100 seconds from armed conflict.
http://teenink.com/Past/2005/September/19234.html
17 people die from starvation every minute.
-leaving the world a better place for children
The Incidence of Abortion Worldwide | Guttmacher Institute
87.5 children are murdered every minute by abortion. But they are not counted in the above numbers as they don't exist
These are not the children you are talking about is it?
If this is being good, what would be being bad?

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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Message 58 of 304 (404806)
06-09-2007 9:18 PM
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06-09-2007 8:09 PM


Re: Re-Good and Bad
Then you continue by introducing some irrelevant death statistics which have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with behavior, good or bad.
I don't know about you but I think murder is bad.
I also think war is bad.
I think people starving to death is bad.
I think taking the life of 87 fetus per minute is bad.
Somebody eithr does these things or causes them to happen.
jar is that good, bad or irrelevant?

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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Message 62 of 304 (404913)
06-10-2007 2:27 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by purpledawn
06-10-2007 6:16 AM


Re: Still no Answer
Would you say that societies that don't believe in a god that punishes don't allow their people to do good to one another?
PD I am sorry to say that in this day and age societies believing or not believing in God does not make any difference. The miniscuel amount of people that truly believe in God is very few. There are many that have a knowledge of God but do not know Him.
It is about why it is right to do good to others.
I try to do good because the Bible teaches me that I should be good. Love thy neighbor as thyself. The government has made some laws that entice me to be good.

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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Message 64 of 304 (404920)
06-10-2007 3:57 PM
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06-10-2007 2:52 PM


Re: Still no Answer
Do you know of any society that deems it wrong to do good
Yes. Satan worshipers, I think this group would qualify.
http://www.churchofsatan.com/home.html
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!
Why is it considered right to do good to others?
My opinion:Because that is what people want to believe.
Explanation:They want to believe it because God wrote it in their mind.

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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