Morality

Psalm 11:7 Amplified Bible

For the Lord is [absolutely] righteous, He loves righteousness (virtue, morality, justice);
The upright shall see His face.

Isaiah 59:14 New English Translation

Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square
and morality is not even able to enter.

The word morality is only used in these two versions of the bible. The psalm uses it to identify traits of righteousness. In Isaiah the word uprightness is translated morality.

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Morality:

See ETHICS

Nave’s Topical Bible

Morality:

See DUTY OF MAN TO MAN; INTEGRITY; NEIGHBOR

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Historical Sketch of Ethics.

A comprehensive treatment of our subject would naturally include a history of ethics from the earliest times to the present. For ethics as a branch of philosophical inquiry partakes of the historical development of all thought, and the problems which it presents to our day can be rightly appreciated only in the light of certain categories and concepts-such as end, good, virtue, duty, pleasure, egoism and altruism-which have been evolved through the successive stages of the movement of ethical thoughts.

Professors love to make things complicated. I love simplicity.

Morality is a human construct by which man judges one another to make themselves feel superior. Both sides judge the other.

James 2:4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Making distinctions is another way of saying morality is a human construct. Throughout history the needle that divides moral from immoral swings from  one side to another isolating people into smaller and larger groups. Misery loves company and so do the righteous. As society changes the scale swings back towards the moral side while decreasing the number of people judged as immoral. The bible ties morality to righteousness.

Romans 3:10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;”

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