@Whatever cv,
Whatever!;69450 wrote:Says who? See, the Bible is just written and interpreted by man to serve him...there is no God.
Truths give man a way to measure their will. The understanding can be enlightened and raised. However, the man must do something with it like reining in evils, sin and bad behavior.
If a person rejects the Bible, hopefully they will adopt similar standards from other sources including other religions that teach living well, or laws of countries that should be followed.
While in this life, a person will ingrain a certain life or how they lived their life in this world. Since death is a continuation, man should seek to live a good life. The life you live here goes deep into your intentions that drive your actions:
"Man can indeed repent of evils that he has done in body, and still think and will evil; but this is like cutting off the trunk of a bad tree, and leaving its root in the ground, from which the same bad tree grows up again, and spreads forth its branches. But it is different when the root also is torn up; and this is done in man when he examines the intentions of his will, and puts away his evils by repentance." -- Swedenborg