1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 13:34-35
Love One Another
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Matthew 5:43-48
Love Your Enemies
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Morality is much about love and loving others and your neighbors...So when I think about morality and what is good morality, I think about it in terms of love...And we know that God is LOVE...
Jesus taught us about morality...In His teachings we see how good morality can be and how those following His ideas on morality can make the world better...He is absolutely morally Right...He is the One who is always morally Right...
Some sets of moral ideas are better than others...C. S. Lewis said this about morality..."Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better...If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality...In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others...We do believe that some of the people who tried to change the moral ideas of their own age were what we would call Reformers of Pioneers — people who understood morality better than their neighbors did...Very well then...The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other...But the standard that measures two things is something different from either...You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others...Or put it this way. If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something — some Real Morality — for them to be true about...The reason why your idea of New York can be truer of less true than mine is that New York is a real place, existing quite apart from what either of us thinks...If when each of us said 'New York' each means merely 'The town I am imagining in my own head', how could one of us have truer ideas than the other?...There would be no question of truth or falsehood at all...In the same way, if the Rule of Decent Behaviour meant simply 'whatever each nation happens to approve', there would be no sense in saying that any one nation had even been more correct in its approval than any other; no sense in saying that the world would ever grow morally better or morally worse."...
Christian Morality starts with God...In believing in LOVE and in God and in loving one another we are following a set of morals that are better than all morals...We are following the Real Morality...We are following the One who is Perfect, and loving the way our Father wants us to love...Real Morality starts with God and His Son...