Matthew 5:22
Moral Laws and Judging Others
22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
If there is no God, there is no moral laws...Why should anyone be moral or try to be moral, if God does not exist?...Did man make moral laws?...What is interesting is that the atheist and non-believer, and believer, as well, thinks that there is a correct right and wrong, a standard of behavior that is the correct way to live morally...It even seems this is universal...The believer thinks that God is the ultimate moral giver...The non-believer thinks it evolved from the majesty of man...
But each of us, believer, non-believer, and atheist, when we really think about it, each of us have our own unique right or wrong list...We all have our own thoughts on what is morally right and what is morally wrong...Normally, it seems, that people of the same culture and same nation share many of the same things of what is morally right and what is morally wrong...If a culture had all its population write down a list, they would find they share many similarities of morality, but after checking each of the lists they would not be exact from list to list...Different countries and different cultures would share many similarities of the rights and the wrongs in their moral beliefs than another nation or culture...But they would differ a little more than their own culture and nation morals...Nonetheless, we all do believe, we should behave in a just, charitable moral, and loving way...But we also have these little differences among our friends, and those we have never even met...
All these little and large differences get in the way of their being a permanent peace on earth...These differences are why we debate, argue, fight, and even have wars...We must realize that some of our moral differences come out of us wanting something another has, or us being greedy, or us wanting to get ahead...We try to do what is right, but our job or work, or belief in wanting something that is not ours, or wanting to get ahead in our job or our lives causes us to compare our lives and ourselves to others, or our feeling that we need to compete with our neighbor...We also sometimes without even knowing it judge our neighbor and then get mad at them for not meeting that standard of behavior we have set for him...
Now, let us try to imagine three things...The first thing, let us imagine, that we are wise, very wise and we know that we are not perfect, and it is possible our definition on our moral right list, may contain some errors...Some of the things on our brothers and neighbors list are right, and are better than our list...Another cultures list may even be better than ours...Let us also imagine that if we can drop all of our comparing our lives to our neighbors, or wanting what our neighbors have, and even competing with our neighbors...When we compete and compare ourselves with others, we sometimes make a judgment against them...If they don't meet our standard of behavior, we get angry...If we can let them live, and can be happy with them and all the things they have, even though some of our neighbors have many more things than us...Now let us imagine, we can forgive any man or woman for anything they have done to us or our families...If we could only imagine these three things, these little differences and most of the large differences would go away...There would be peace in this world...
The bigger question is where did the majority of this standard moral behavior, that the nations cultures have agreed upon come from...They have either come from the majesty of man, or the Majesty of God...I believe that they came from God...It comes from a perfectly moral God and His perfectly Moral Son...If everyone thought and was like Jesus, the world would all agree on the complete list of morals...God sent us His Son to show us these things and how to live together...Jesus shows us that man can live together with His brother (and neighbors) without being angry, without debates, argument, fights, and even wars...When we read the gospels we see that Jesus acts morally the way we want to act, and it can be done, if we follow His teachings...He is the Way, and He shows us that Way...