If morality is not objective, it is nothing more than personal opinion and people will convince themselves whatever they do is moral.

I referenced the verses by description in my reply above to @Knight@lemm.ee. If you need chapter and verse: [Mat 28:19-20 ESV] 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." [Rom 6:3-4 ESV] 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

It seems to me that they cannot square that with the verses I referenced. You can tell lies if you omit context. The Bible says the fool says there is no God but if you only say what the fool said, claiming that the Bible teaches that there is not God, without noting that the fool said it, you are communicating a lie.

My experience until very recently has been with churches in the believers’ baptism (Baptist) tradition. I am not sure that I fully understand the thinking of denominations that practice infant baptism. It seems to me that in those denominations infant baptism essentially is the same as what a baby dedication would be in a Baptist church. But how do they square that with the verses that relate to making disciples and baptizing them and baptism being symbolic of sins being washed away, dying to sin, and being raised in new life?

What do the Protestant creeds and confessions have to say about it?

It seems to me that if mortality is not grounded in God it’s entirely subjective. Even if it is grounded in natural law, there are differing interpretations of what moral rules natural law entails. It seems to me without subjective grounding, mortality is entirely subjective and is no effective restraint of human action. If every man is a law unto himself, morality effectively ceases to exist.

Insults are easy. Are you capable of making an argument?

Good point.

I graduated a long time ago, in 1975, but shortly after graduation bought a life-time membership to the alumni association, which means every quarter I receive a copy of the alumni magazine, The Penn Stater. Accordingly, I have been able to follow the way the University consistently pushes an intersectionality agenda. Academically, I think the university has done a fairly good job of maintaining its standards. When I attended, it was fairly easy to get admitted but fairly difficult to graduate. I suspect that it is much the same now. I knew a lot of people who dropped out before graduation. It is known as a party school, so a certain percentage just party till they flunk out or run out of money. As a taxpayer, I resent the fact that such debauchery and failure is publicly subsidized.

I’m a Penn State alum. Sadly, this does not surprise me.

I can’t seem to follow your community from Lemmy but I can follow it from Kbin and Mastodon. Strange.