jollyroger
Senior Member
I like your question, and it's made me think about another one.Didnt anyone live by such standards before the stories in the NT were written?
When did humans begin living to the standards outlined in the Bible?
The far more ancient code of Hamurabi comes to mind, but can we go even further back?
We have discovered sites that pre-date Babylonian society that show evidence of cultural cooperation, namely Gobekli Tepi.
But I still want to go even further back, could it have something to do with our rise to higher consciousness?
I guess one would have to subscribe to the theory of evolution in order to think we were anything but homo sapien sapien in our current form.
Evolutionary theory has it's share of issues, but it's still pretty solid regardless.
Did morals arise alongside consciousness?
Did it appear when we became aware of ourselves?
Did it arise out of a need for resources?
Did we figure out that we can take down a wooly mammoth better, and feed more people easier, if we work together than if we try and fight each other?