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Originally Posted by Rathji
Objective Standard of Morality
There are laws that God created, he is obligated to to follow them as long as wel follow them. If we follow them, we will recieve the rewards of these laws. If we do not follow them, we cannot recieve the rewards for it. ie God can't feel sorry for us and reward us if we didn't follow the 'rule'. This might be hard to understand, but this topic could be discussed for days on end without being complete.
God is pure goodness and pure love. He created everything and when he did he knew that Lucifer would be revolt and fight against the heavens. Without evil, there can be no good. Just as without darkness there can be no light. Evil tempts us, if we were not tempted we could not learn.
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Not all areas of Christianity believe this though.. you say that you have to follow the laws to reap the rewards, but wasn't the whole point of Jesus dying that man could never follow the laws themselves? (Sucks to be a pre-Jesus person) So salvation comes through grace by faith, not by actions such as obeying or disobeying any law.
Plus God didn't obey his own commandments. The Old Testament is filled with people being killed by God. God killed 42 kids who made fun of Elisha (2 Kings 2:23-24)