We need to get back to the basics to have a solid basis upon which society can be built. Good and evil, right and wrong are relative and vary with philosophies, however, life is real and death is real. If we can agree that life is good and death is bad, then what sustains and promotes life is "good," and that which tends toward death is "evil." This was the Bible's starting point. In the Garden of Eden there were 2 trees, representing 2 choices. There was 1.) the Tree of Life, and 2.) the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. To choose #2, was to choose death.
Death is a zero, an absence, an absolute nothing. Life is a plus, a something. If everything is a 1 or 0, life is a 1. That people are miserable/depressed just shows that death is operating in them and/or in their circumstances. If life were operating in them, that is, if they had health, love, and hope, they would prefer life. Life is better. Interestingly, Jesus said, "The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and may have it abundantly (John 10:10).
We need to get back to the basics to have a solid basis upon which society can be built. Good and evil, right and wrong are relative and vary with philosophies, however, life is real and death is real. If we can agree that life is good and death is bad, then what sustains and promotes life is "good," and that which tends toward death is "evil." This was the Bible's starting point. In the Garden of Eden there were 2 trees, representing 2 choices. There was 1.) the Tree of Life, and 2.) the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. To choose #2, was to choose death.
Death is a zero, an absence, an absolute nothing. Life is a plus, a something. If everything is a 1 or 0, life is a 1. That people are miserable/depressed just shows that death is operating in them and/or in their circumstances. If life were operating in them, that is, if they had health, love, and hope, they would prefer life. Life is better. Interestingly, Jesus said, "The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and may have it abundantly (John 10:10).