Saturday, December 9, 2023
The word morals comes from the Latin moralitas. The root mor means ‘custom.’ There are many who erroneously believe we get our morals from external sources like the Bible or The Ten Commandments, but most people couldn’t name but two, and the Bible is full of all sorts of examples of corruption, duplicitous behavior, violence, murder, and explicitness. How can a moral compass come from something like that?
Morals change, yet we think they’re absolute. In the days of early humans, I’m sure they had no clothing. Going naked was acceptable and wasn’t thought of as “indecent exposure.” In ancient Jewish times, working on the sabbath was considered unacceptable and was punishable by death. Now, it’s hard to find anything but Chick-Fil-A closed on a Sunday. As recently as the 1960’s interracial marriage was considered reprehensible, and now changing one’s gender is the new frontier in the moral “war.”
Nobody realizes where morals come from and that they change rapidly. If they change, how can they be “God’s laws?” When all humans recognize the value of seeing “us” not “them,” a new earth will spring forth. The universal consciousness is speaking internally and wanting to awaken, but we’re too distracted by fighting and forcing teachers to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. Morality isn’t about being right or winning, it’s about the whole. Reading the Bible cover to cover won’t make you whole – seeing The Truth from within will. Corruption is the disallowing of authenticity to come from within. Corrupt beliefs of dictating morality frustrate the divine flow that wants to express itself in and through you. Are you slowing down the divine flow by enforcing so-called moral codes? Morals are customs and they are evolving, changing, and growing, just like you are.