Morality

One of the top reasons why people reject various versions of God is  that they don’t believe or don’t want to believe certain variants of morality, and believe that religious treatment of those views is unjust. What if many popular assumptions of the data on certain subjects, i.e., abstaining from sex before marriage and abstaining from cohabitation before marriage, have a lot more objective data-backed reasoning than people think?

The words of the Bible are provided for the benefit of man and for the flourishing of humanity. People doing good don’t provide any tangible benefit to God that He couldn’t provide via alternative non-human means. Obeying the Bible is beneficial primarily to the person obeying, to humanity, & to the world. It’s not merely abstaining from evil; it’s in part the promotion of good, even if it’s costly in certain terms. God is omniscient, so His revelation on cost benefit analysis will often not make sense, but in history, & especially in the past century, more and more findings have revealed just how much what God says is good is good if one looks carefully at the data, even if that data isn’t commonly known or focused on even in many religious circles.

One of the top goals of this site is to show the data so that you can both see how the data lines up with the moral precepts of God (specifically those laid out in the Bible, but with many parallel religious moral beliefs lining up at times) & see how the data backed nature of abiding by those precepts provides a net positive to the individuals who adhere to them and to the world, which provides one of the indicators of divine inspiration of the Bible.

Adherents of the Bible often don’t do what it says, so another significant goal of this site is to distinguish between what those who call themselves Christians do and practice vs what the Bible teaches.