Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Moral Law (part III)

February 19th, 2025
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How do we know the moral law exisits?

4. Unchangable Standard of Justice

Popular argument against the existence of God is the presence and persistence of evil

How do we get the idea the world is so cruel and unjust? We must know what is just.

We can not know what is evil unless you know what is good - an unchanging standard outside oursleves

Without an objective standard, any obejction is just an opinon

With no Moral Law, we wouldn't be able to detect evil or injustice of any kind

Without justice, injustice is meaningless

Without an unchanging standard of good, there is no such things of obejctive evil

5. Defines moral positions

To evaluate Mother Teresa vs Hilter, we need an absolute unchanging standard beyond the both of them

If the Moral Law does not exist, there is no moral difference between the two, only differening opinons

 


Key Phrase: With no Moral Law, we wouldn't be able to detect evil or injustice of any kind

Notes from: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Frank Turek.


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