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How can one be a good person if everyone has different understandings of you? You cannot please everyone in life, therefore perfection is impossible.

Is it not impossible to be a “good” person as a different version of yourself exists inside the head of everyone you meet - and due to human relationships and nature this means an amoral picture of you will exist within at least one persons life - by doing what one person wishes of us we deny another of what they wish - perfection is therefore impossible is it not?

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How/why did Jesus die, given he is also God/Son of God? Why did he need to die, instead of God just forgiving our sins?

As you mentioned, Jesus Crucified, my question is how a son of God can be crucified by normal human being? Why God didn’t save him, if he was his Son?
If Jesus is God and according to Christianity he died because of our sins so why didn’t he just forgive those sins because he’s almighty he can do anything.

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Why does God get to do bad things and still be called good? eg flooding from Genesis

Humans would be considered evil if they deliberately started a massive flood. Why does God hold double standards?

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Can you only be a good person if you believe in Jesus/are a Christian?

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Does God reject bad people and have favouritism on people coming to know Christ

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How does the universal standard work in situations where both outcomes will hurt people? Is it a random choice?

How does the Universal standard account for matters such as the trolley problem - if you are given the choice between saving two lives but you can only save one - how do you decide, if the universal standard determines what is right, and therefore what God says is right, do we choose to save they who has sinned less or is it a random choice? How does the universal standard account for situations where both outcomes hurt people?

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What's the point of the Bible if we're sinful?

If Jesus says we have to be pure in heart to see God, and that we’re as not good we think we are,  then why should we even try to follow what the Bible says about anything?

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How does one recognise what Jesus wants of us and what we want of ourselves? (Discernment)

You mention a difference between thr non-Christian idea of following ones own desires or "being myself" and following my heart as created by God. How can I recognise what are my own desires and what is from God? "Following Jesus" seems quite vague and abstract.

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Note for all: feel free to ask the individual speakers your questions if we don't have time to get to them tonight! There are definitely some good questions but we likely won't have time for all of them, so please make sure you get your answers - I'm sure they'll be more than happy to chat :)

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Note for all: feel free to ask the individual speakers your questions if we don't have time to get to them tonight! There are definitely some good questions but we likely won't have time for all of them, so please make sure you get your answers - I'm sure they'll be more than happy to chat :)

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Why should we try to be good if we are forgiven by Jesus' death and resurrection?

If Jesus dies on the cross for humanity to absolve them of sin - then if we are United to Jesus and thus privy to that source of infinite good, then what point is there to being good? If we will be forgiven through faith to Jesus then does that therefore enable us to be absolved of all guilt from immoral or “bad” actions as faith elevates us from blame?

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Is the natural disposition in everyone the same, or does it differ per person?

You mentioned a natural disposition put into people by god- is this the same in everyone, or does it differ in each individual?

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Doesn't the holy spirit also guides us when it comes to morality as Christians

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How does morality fit into determinism?

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How does your stance on morality impact how you live your day to day life?

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Is the natural disposition put into people by God inherently good or sinful?

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So do muslims base their morality on Nietzsche and dostoevsky?

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Can we base our moral compass broadly around empathy?

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Would a morally good person choose to pull the lever in the trolley problem, therefore killing one person to save five?

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How do you personally define goodness? Is this reliable, arbitrary or consistent?

What is your “yardstick” by which all goodness can be defined? Is it a reliable “yardstick”? How do we know if it is arbitrary or consistent?

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What forms morality?

this may be difficult, but could you sum up in a couple of sentences where your point of view suggests morality comes from? i. e. what forms morality

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Is it part of tradition that only men are on the mat during prayer? If so, why?

Not sure if this is a correct observation or not, but it seemed like only men were on the mat during the prayer. Is this part of the regular tradition? If so, why?

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Can truistic morality transition cleanly across to truistic living? Can we really do moral truism living?

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Do we need an absolute? How do we deal when truth is not an absolute?

Do what extent is it important to have an absolute truth/moral agent in our world? How do we reconcile a world where truth is purely subjective with no absolutes?

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When do social contracts become legal instead of moral? Why are they important if there are no absolute truths? Why follow what others determine?

At what point do social contracts stop being moral and become legal? Why should we obey social contracts if there is no reward for us - if morals are what is true and absolute truths cannot be found then why are social contracts significant? Why not just live short hedonistic lives if there is no point to existence rather than following guidelines laid down by others?

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What happens to laws/contracts if they are determined by eternal entities, or if they're no longer alive?

You mentioned that you shouldn’t follow a law or contract if someone has died.
What should you do if there are laws that have been eternally created by an eternal entity?
If the law makers have died, then should the law(s) be no longer followed, what is the objective foundation for society to function, and for human to human to interact?

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How do you find your personal moral sense? Where does abortion fall on the scale of morality?

Your talk mainly highlights the pain and pleasure principle.
Where do you place a mother doing abortion on a scale of morality?
In essence, where does your personal moral sense emerge from?

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How do you deal with competition of simultaneous social contracts? Do you need to find another society if you disagree with the government?

What are we to do if the moral topography of western society is too fissured to reconcile -that there are two simultaneous social contracts competing for this same landscape? Is it right to say that those not subscribing to the governing social contract should go find another society?

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If society is where morality is formed from, then how is it that the slave trade or Nazism can be considered worse than the morality of those who opposed them?

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Is truth really not an absolute? Is goodness decided by society or by the truth?

Can truth really be put into a category that no-one can make assertive statements because there are simply other ways to view it? Can we just say goodness should be decided by the society, not by what is true?

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Pertaining to what you said about pronouns, let's say if I wanted to be addressed by the title of Dr, but I am not one, would you still refer to me as one? Would you say truth supersedes aligning with others feelings?