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Why is morality not necessarily tied to culture?
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Because morality that is based on culture is arbitrary depending on the culture. It is not based on an objective standard that is unchanging. Morality comes from God who is unchanging and eternally good.
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If God is the basis for morality, morality is not arbitrary or changing because God’s nature is unchanging and absolute; His moral character serves as the eternal standard for what is right and wrong, providing a stable, objective foundation for moral principles.
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Because of the diversity of cultures. One can belong to a multitude in one’s lifetime, so whose morality do they append themselves to? The lecturer compares cultural relativity to a multiple choice test, in that multiple options doesn’t indicate that all are correct.
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If there is no absolute morality at all, no culture has the right to say what is considered “normative” behaviour. This problem of indetermination is especially obvious in a society that has multiple subcultures.
Moreover, no culture can talk of nor pursue moral progress, if there is no “ruler” to measure what morality is. Neither can a moral reformer advocate any moral advance nor any abolition of evil, since there is no absolute good and evil by such an argument. In actual fact, we find that cultures are not as diverse as we think on moral principles – most of them advocate honoring one’s elders, respecting authority, and treating human beings kindly, etc. Hence morality is not necessarily tied to culture.
#apologetics
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Culture can and will be wrong, true morality is found in Jesus, He never changes.