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LEVITICUS | 19:18 Lord — LEV642 For the nontheist, an autonomous basis for...

LEV642 For the nontheist, an autonomous basis for morality must be affirmed for moral behavior to be justified. For the theist, the existence of God serves as the ultimate source of a justification for moral behavior. For example, a rabbinic text interprets the well-known verse from Leviticus (19:18): "You should love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord"-- to mean: "You should love your neighbor as yourself because I am the Lord, because I [God] have created him." Berakhot 59b.

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