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differences which would indicate there is no set law to which we are all privy.

The truth is that the standard of goodness is God. His nature is good. All that is not aligned with Him is that which misses the mark. He hasn't created a list of laws, apart from Jewish law that was intended for a specific purpose for a specific time. God, to be God, is eternal. Thus, his every attribute is eternally thus. God is good. He has never ceased being good. He was good before there was ever any evil. Humans look at the two and compare and contrast, but in reality, goodness isn't waged in contrast to evil. God is good without reference to evil. There is no evil in him. What God does is good, for it cannot be otherwise. He isn't following a moral law. He is the standard of good. He doesn't ask us to follow a moral law. He asks us to find our life in Him. We do not become good by doing "good" things. We become good by His mercy and grace being given to us through Jesus. And when we come into that grace and life in Christ we begin to reflect our Father. We begin to live like Jesus. We learn a new way of living.

Goodness isn't attainable apart from God. It can't be for it does not exist apart from Him. It is being distant from Him which brings about evil, the separation from His goodness is what corrupts and brings destruction to man. This is so, because there isn't any life to be found except in being united with the greatest Life of all.

A person can do "good" moral things and not believe in God. But the only way they have that knowledge of a divide between good and evil is because there is a good God that endowed them with that knowledge regardless of their acceptance of Him. That knowledge is there to lead them to the life found in Christ and away from the destructiveness of their own path. It's a guide to the way to Him. If we think it is all about the laws or rules of living morally we miss the point entirely, whether atheists or Christian. It was never about laws. Man made religion about rules. But God never did, it's always been about Jesus from Genesis to Revelation.

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