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Does matter, evolution, chemistry, biology, science, etc. do they all inherently care? Are they all inherently righteousness? Do they all inherently produce guilt or explain self-sacrifice in and of themselves? What about love? Patience? None of them have moral attributes. So, where’d those attributes come from? The answer is God.
In a book I’m reading, the main character said he has a crisis of conscience. He believed what he was doing was right. And his enemy also believed what he was doing was right. The main character came to the realization how we ultimately distinguish between the two. He was determined he was in the right, believed what he was doing was moral, with no question. But said his enemy also believed the same about his position. So, that led him to ask who is right? He asked how do we ultimately judge between two equally determined passions or POV’s? That’s when he concluded that there must be an outside source to determine right from wrong.
Now, the character didn’t say the outside source is God, but I thought how he distinguished between the two could be a good way to formulate the moral argument for the existence of God.
When it comes to morality, the outside source cannot be man, as both people believe they are both correct, yet they both believe the other is incorrect, but both cannot be correct and incorrect in the same sense, as that would violate the law of contradiction.
A lot of people want to ask if God is good, if he's love, then why does evil exist? And I believe that's the wrong question. It's ironic because with all the evil in the world, why does good even exist? Why is there good in the world? And where does good come from? Where’s it originate? Why do people choose evil and not the all-good God? Have you ever known someone who was truly, genuinely walking by the Spirit, walking in the light, all while simultaneously at the same time committing evil? The answer to that is no. It is impossible. It is impossible to be led by the Spirit all while committing evil at the exact same time (1 Jn. 1:6; Gal. 5:16). So, the question is not, why does evil exist when a good God exists? The question is, why do people choose evil and not follow the One who prevents evil? Also, evil is not a thing when you get down to it. Evil is a perversion of good, of goodness. It's kind of like when you look at a messed up car. That car wasn't like that to begin with. It started out good. And over time, it got rusted, so it got corrupted. The good car got corrupt. And so, you take the damage, the rust, the corrosion, the nicks, the dings, the scratches out of the car, and you got good. So, evil, bad, is a perversion, an absence of good. When people choose to reject the ultimate standard of good, when people choose not to follow the all-good God, then, yeah, evil is going to happen. And from a lot of that evil comes suffering and comes pain, to which many inflict onto other people. When it comes to moral pain and suffering, it is brought on by evil, which is brought on by not following God. So, why does evil exist? Well, because people exist. Because they don't want to submit to God.
What's more difficult of a question is, why does good even exist in a world saturated with sin? Why does good still exist? Why do people still choose good and not evil? Why do people decide to choose the moral uprightness? Why do people feel convicted on certain things, if God doesn't care, or if He does not exist? Good is evidence for God. We would not know whether something is truly good if there was no ultimate goodness. If God does not exist, or if he doesn't care, then what is deemed as good is just opinion. It's just subjective. There's no measuring stick. There's no ultimate benchmark to say, yeah, that's objectively good. You're not going to know what a crooked line looks like without knowing what a straight line looks like. The crooked line is a deprivation. It's a departure of a straight line. So in order to know that something is evil, it has to be a departure of something or someone that is consistently, unchangeably good. And once that line is crossed, once that goodness of the ultimate standard is rejected, that's why evil happens.
The source of morality is an unchangeable, eternal, morally perfect Being. God.
In a book I’m reading, the main character said he has a crisis of conscience. He believed what he was doing was right. And his enemy also believed what he was doing was right. The main character came to the realization how we ultimately distinguish between the two. He was determined he was in the right, believed what he was doing was moral, with no question. But said his enemy also believed the same about his position. So, that led him to ask who is right? He asked how do we ultimately judge between two equally determined passions or POV’s? That’s when he concluded that there must be an outside source to determine right from wrong.
Now, the character didn’t say the outside source is God, but I thought how he distinguished between the two could be a good way to formulate the moral argument for the existence of God.
When it comes to morality, the outside source cannot be man, as both people believe they are both correct, yet they both believe the other is incorrect, but both cannot be correct and incorrect in the same sense, as that would violate the law of contradiction.
A lot of people want to ask if God is good, if he's love, then why does evil exist? And I believe that's the wrong question. It's ironic because with all the evil in the world, why does good even exist? Why is there good in the world? And where does good come from? Where’s it originate? Why do people choose evil and not the all-good God? Have you ever known someone who was truly, genuinely walking by the Spirit, walking in the light, all while simultaneously at the same time committing evil? The answer to that is no. It is impossible. It is impossible to be led by the Spirit all while committing evil at the exact same time (1 Jn. 1:6; Gal. 5:16). So, the question is not, why does evil exist when a good God exists? The question is, why do people choose evil and not follow the One who prevents evil? Also, evil is not a thing when you get down to it. Evil is a perversion of good, of goodness. It's kind of like when you look at a messed up car. That car wasn't like that to begin with. It started out good. And over time, it got rusted, so it got corrupted. The good car got corrupt. And so, you take the damage, the rust, the corrosion, the nicks, the dings, the scratches out of the car, and you got good. So, evil, bad, is a perversion, an absence of good. When people choose to reject the ultimate standard of good, when people choose not to follow the all-good God, then, yeah, evil is going to happen. And from a lot of that evil comes suffering and comes pain, to which many inflict onto other people. When it comes to moral pain and suffering, it is brought on by evil, which is brought on by not following God. So, why does evil exist? Well, because people exist. Because they don't want to submit to God.
What's more difficult of a question is, why does good even exist in a world saturated with sin? Why does good still exist? Why do people still choose good and not evil? Why do people decide to choose the moral uprightness? Why do people feel convicted on certain things, if God doesn't care, or if He does not exist? Good is evidence for God. We would not know whether something is truly good if there was no ultimate goodness. If God does not exist, or if he doesn't care, then what is deemed as good is just opinion. It's just subjective. There's no measuring stick. There's no ultimate benchmark to say, yeah, that's objectively good. You're not going to know what a crooked line looks like without knowing what a straight line looks like. The crooked line is a deprivation. It's a departure of a straight line. So in order to know that something is evil, it has to be a departure of something or someone that is consistently, unchangeably good. And once that line is crossed, once that goodness of the ultimate standard is rejected, that's why evil happens.
The source of morality is an unchangeable, eternal, morally perfect Being. God.
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