For all the doubts that you have seeing a crooked path ask Jesus, by reading him how can you make them straight.
Jesus had said that there were a human tradition and God tradition. Human tradition were rebelious.
Isaiah that profesised the coming of the Lamb of God:
1"What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.
That is not a God made tradition, but a man made tradition.
Samuel that made a king someone similiar to Jesus - Dawid, had said:
22Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
The Dawid himself:
16For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.
And finally Jesus had rebuke the Jews that they follow the man made traditions and God does not have delight in them. They made Moses obey them, because they were in constant rebelion towards God. God had a compromise.
Finally Jesus had said they are not the sons of Moses. If they would be the sons of Moses they would listen and obey him. They would not want sacrifices if they would obey him. They would not want stoning if they would be the God of Abraham and Jacob and Dawid and Jesus.
Do not forget a Moses was a murderer. Thats not a coincidence that he took lightly a murder. God want to show us that sin breeds sin. We need to break the vicious cycle by repenting.
They would not have divorce as Jesus have said that they made Moses to agree to make their wicked law. THATS ALL A MAN THAT IS EVIL! Jesus have said that they had a wicked hard hearth if they do not see the evils of divorce.
Jesus have come to show the God is not evil. Its the man that desires it.
All God want you to sacrifice is your idols, your wickedness and obey him.
*science alert* Psychology shows how human like to project unto others what they want. Its like if I like something that must be the God that is pleased. Or if I am a sinner I would pretend that goat is a sinner and by sacrificing it I will sacrifice my wickedness. Stupid? Yes. But human are often stupid lying creatures.
Jesus was send for the Biblical people to show how their paths are not 100% of God. They mix the good with the evil. He came to the lost people that could not say what is good and what is bad, because of their rebelious nature and their rebelious leaders - Pharisee.
It is true whether or not anyone believes it to be true. Natural moral law theory implies that we discover morality we do not invent it.
Discovered morality? My ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jgckjVubo It seems to be that this discovery is very hard to discover for a whole lot of people around the world.
An absolute is an objectively true moral principle that is unchanging and cross-cultural.
I could say its cross-culturaly ignored. Unchanging - yeah I agree.
Im not sure if shaming practices in Japan you would not consider a torture. Or a taoist China killing children that are females, or breaking female baby legs to put them together again. Spartans, Mongols, Indians... were they all moral by our standards? Give me a break.... realy.... Ignorance is not a virtue. Just because you are not aware of the abuse of children by all the cultures around the world does not mean its not there. Just because you close your eyes does not mean the evil is not there.
But yes, moral values are universal - they are a God law. They were not made by religion. We could agree on that. But saying atheists are better than of christians because they are pure, is a nonfactual nonsense.
Children are the most abused group of people around the world. Ask catholic priests - they know best about it.
In the John revelation it is written:
"6But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. "
Nicoloitans - Saint Nicolas, Claus at short ( a bishop of Antiochia) followers (does it ring something? Jingle Bells?). An origins of Catholic church. One of the practice of Nicolaitans was fucking little orphans. That was not considered sin.
People have evil in their hearth. Deal with it. And yes we have a lot of good in us. Its the purified God dna as to speak.