Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.