Argument of morality

Argument of morality


The basis of moral argument for God is that all people recognize some moral code. Lewis argues that we all have within us the sense of right behavior and character. He says, “human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.”Lewis calls this law of right behavior the Moral Law. We live in a moral universe—in addition to the physical facts , there are moral facts such how lying is wrong and bravery is right. We find in the universe “a real law, which none of us made, but which we find pressing on us.”But if there is an objective Moral Law, and none of us made it, there must be something else that produced the Moral Law, a Moral Law-giver, hence premise.

There is a universal human “moral conscience” which suggests basic human similarities. Everyone experiences an internal sense of moral obligation to do the right thing; Lewis asserts that the existence of a universal “moral conscience,” consistent across time and cultures, can only be explained by the existence of a god who created us. Furthermore, Lewis insists that earlier generations had a better grasp of Moral Law on account of their greater agreement on what constitutes moral and immoral behavior. C.S. Lewis claimed that different cultures had “only slightly different moralities.”

Atheism which is more of Mark Vuletic’s viewpoint however provides no basis for morality, no hope, and no meaning for life. While this does not disprove atheism by itself, if the logical outworking of a belief system fails to account for what we instinctively know to be true, it ought to be discarded. Without God there would be no objective basis for morality, no life, and no reason to live it. Yet all these things do exist, and so does God. In atheism, there is no moral right and wrong.  There is no moral law because when you remove God, you remove the standard by which objective moral truth is established.  In atheism...

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