Conversing with Atheists (4) – morality
PREVIOUSLY
No life from non-life
– mathematical impossibility
– no synthetic organic chemistry mechanism
LAST WEEK
Recap – https://youtu.be/rKhSHExRSa4
Great disparity between world religions
Multiple exclusive claims…
TODAY :
Where does morality come from ?
ONE GENERALIZED place of agreement : World religions say “ be nice “ ??
Why?
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Today drive another nail in coffin of the argument seeking to deny God’s existence & work of design.
SCHINDLERS LIST
…. In Kraków during World War II, the Nazi Germans force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German member of the Nazi Party from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. Schindler bribes Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SSofficials, acquiring a factory to produce enamelware. Schindler hires Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business community; he handles administration and helps Schindler arrange financing. Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible are deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration camps or killed…..
Hard to watch Schindlers list and not be moved, outraged
Goodness, Rightness, Morality would demand it!
But – how did that persecution happen?
Enlightenment – man’s reason above God
Darwin “ favored races “
“Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection or the Preservation of Favoured
Races in the Struggle for Life.”
Hitler – desired to help evolution along..
Think it thru – if driving principle is survival of fittest, then why allow those w/ “ defects “ to pass those on? Why help sick people? Why care for those destitute 3rd world?
Ex- unvaxed – “ no hospital care “
Virus most often attacjed old, obese,
comorbidity(4)
Why help???? – enter morality !
Thankfully morality exists. World saw beyond Hitler. People supposedly care for those without a voice. Weak.
Clearly Morality rises and falls…
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF MORALITY ?
WHERE ARE ITS ROOTS
But there is only one way MORALITY makes any sense….
Gen 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
IMAGE OF GOD….
Then morality totally makes sense
See God’s heart….
Cain
Noah
Exodus / Moses
Babel
Israel
Jesus “ father forgive them “
Right, Wrong, Justice, Mercy
Contrast – human/ child sacrifice
Molec – ammonites
Canaanites
Atecs, Incas, Mayan, Nasca, Cahokia mounds ( pre-Columbian)
Israelites
2 Kings 21:1-6, 10-11
Elon Musk interview – God angry….
Morality in face of materialism???!
Absolute from God or from devices culture and changes because it subjective / relative….
Morality
Justice
Right
Hope
…. hang in the balance , one side or the other
The fact that morality exists, the fact that people of all stripes speak of justice,
Is EXACTLY WHAT ONE WOUKD EXPECT if God exists.
What would you expect the world to look like WITHOUT such a Divine fingerprint on us all?
EVIDENCE – let the evidence lead
Let’s PRETEND life came from non-life…
Undirected life
All are animals
No gene for morality
At best – a relative convention ( voted on ? )
Changes / no absolute / w the times
Really – never “ RIGHT”, just right for now.
BIG PROBLEM – what happens:
Hitlers goals – help evolution along….
Extermination of inferiors to advance…,
VERY DIFFICULT to live this way – in practice. Something in us – CONSCIENCE cry’s out against that!
“ my truth “ vs……
Compassion
Hospitals / care
Justice
Fairness
Equality ( equality of resources )
Equity. ( resources given for equality of outcome )
Rights
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Luke 6:35-36
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Morality,-And-Redemption
Isaiah 51:4
Verse Concepts
“Pay attention to Me, O My people,
And give ear to Me, O My nation;
For a law will go forth from Me,
And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Morality,-And-Redemption
Micah 6:8
Verse Concepts
He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Morality,-And-Redemption
Isaiah 1:15-23
“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Morality,-And-Redemption