Absolute and Invariant?

Sorry this has been so long in responding. I have been transferred to Vail where I have no computer. (Do you know of any good cheap laptops you might be able to get your hands on???) This plus a flooded basement last week. To top it all off our internet stopped working. I finally got that figured out yesterday. So we are back up and running.

There is much to respond to. I will begin with our discussion on morality…
“You say you aren't the one that determines right and wrong. That doesn't make sense. You are the one that makes a decision to apply a specific moral standard or reject that moral standard. You've decide that there are absolute morals based on what you've read in the bible, and you've made judgements as to what that moral standard is, and you've decided to follow what you think that is… So you are subjectively following some things and not other things. You say there is an absolute, invariant objective standard, but I see no evidence of such. I see your subjective choices in how you follow the dictates of the bible. You've chosen specific doctrines to believe in and denominational ties to establish…You determine in your own heart what specific standards you follow and which ones you reject. Again totally subjective. Calling it an objective standard doesn't mean much to me when in my estimation every aspect of it is subjective.”

You are right in saying that I do choose to follow it or not, and that is my choice. You are also correct in saying that if I accept some ideas and reject others that those choices are subjective. But I am not saying that what I have chosen is the absolute standard. I am saying that there is an absolute invariant moral standard by which we will both be judged, not based on whether I accept it or not. My acceptance of it has nothing to do with whether or not it exists and is real. Neither does my choice to follow it or my knowledge of it. It is simply because it is. I do not change it or alter it. It is not subject to me or to you. I have no influence on it. I do not determine any aspect of it. It is already determined and is beyond any influence. It is absolute and invariant because it comes from the absolute invariant nature of the eternal God.

You said, “It may be my miscomprehension, but I don't see how you can justify a moral code that is absolute, universal and unchanging outside of using scripture to validate it. That's fine, but I don't accept the validity of scripture.”

I do agree that this will be a much shorter discussion because we are looking for logical consistency in my view, and it is logically consistent to say that if there is an absolute eternal unchanging God that there is an absolute unchanging moral code that flows from His nature. This is really all I am saying. It might even be self-evident.

Hopefully this clarifies things a little. Let me know.