On Morality as a Path

I recently had an interesting conversation with my roommate about whether or not morality was an emotion or a path or based on reason or some other type of thing all together.  This got us along on a conversation about why God sent down rules in the beginning but eventually deemed them as different no longer relevant to our society and repealed them in a vision to his prophets.  This whole debate began on the discussion of whether or not homosexuality is a sin.

Now I am not going to talk go into great detail about my personal beliefs when it comes to the morality of homosexuality but I will say that personally I do not think that it is a sin and I believe whole heartedly that God loves and accepts all of his creations.

Now on to morality, I think that the reason the morality and rules that God sent down has changed because man has changed.  In the beginning man was far below God and they could not understand how great God was, stuck in the wilderness as they were.  The best way I can look at it is through an analogy of a ladder.  Imagine you are standing on the ground gazing up at a twenty foot ladder leading to God.  Now this is no ordinary ladder however, no it only has one step, the highest one.  Is there any way that you can possibly hope to climb there with no help in between?  I personally wouldn't have any hope of jumping that high and reaching God.  That's why God came down to the level of man, to give him the ladder rungs to step on.  God always rests slightly above humanity, slowly drawing them up, giving them rungs to stand on.

I recently learned that my grandfather had a very similar analogy and this may help clear up anything my analogy failed to explain.  My grandfather preached that God was like a fisherman, luring humanity up with his bait; slowly lifting man out of the depths and up towards the top, towards him.

This brings up the question why God even felt the need to lead people instead of allowing them to choose for themselves when man has free will.  I feel that God originally needed to set man on the right path and then allow him to choose for himself what was moral and what was immoral.  Imagine that you are standing in the middle of a circle.  One side of the circle is perfect morality and on the opposite side is immorality.  You have no idea where these points are so how will you know which direction to go?  You won't unless you have a guiding light, and that is what God originally sent down.  God gave man a very narrow path to walk in order to encourage them to walk in the direction of morality.  Sense then He (or She) has widened the path in order to allow humans to decide on their own what they view as moral and immoral because in my opinion morality is always a case by case thing and is not actually an absolute.

God hasn't left man completely in the dark however, we still have the teachings of Jesus and an inborn instinct as to what is moral based on how our society has progressed.  The teachings of God and Jesus basically boil down to love your God and your fellow men.  God is still leading us down the path to righteousness but it is our decision whether or not to follow.