Good Thursday Morning and continued from Tuesday!

1. Question – Is that what life is all about?

2. Thought – Uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation, Dave quickly changed the subject. But his sense that he ought to “help people” was correct; he just had no way of justifying it. Why did he think he should “help people”? Where did he get such an idea? And why do you and I, deep down, agree with him?

Stop and marinate on that point for a minute: Aren’t you just like Dave? Don’t you have this deep-seated sense of obligation that we all ought to “help people”? We all do. Why? And why do most human beings seem to have that same intuitive sense that they ought to do good and shun evil?

Behind the answers to those questions is more evidence for the theistic God. This evidence is not scientific – but moral in nature. Like the laws of logic and mathematics, this evidence is nonmaterial but it’s just as real. The reason we believe we ought to do good rather than evil – the reason we, like Dave, believe we should “help people” – is because there’s a Moral Law that has been written on our hearts. In other words, there is a “prescription” to do good that has been given to all humanity.

Some call this moral prescription “conscience”; others call it “Natural Law”; still others (like our Founding Fathers) refer to it as “Nature’s Law.” We refer to it as “The Moral Law.” But what ever you call it, the fact that a moral standard has been prescribed on the minds of all human beings points to a Moral Law Prescriber. Every prescription has a prescriber. The Moral Law is no different. Someone must have given us these moral obligations. (I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler)

“Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kind to him. You might as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.” (C.S. Lewis)