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Intro
Everyone has questions about God and the existence of God.
Jedidiah asked the other night how we can know God exists
Apologetics seeks to answer those questions.
What is apologetics?
1 Peter 3:15 “but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,”
defense - apologia
The Argument
If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist.
Objective moral values and duties do exist.
Therefore, God exists.
Objective moral values and duties
Values is concerned with whether something is good or bad
Duties is concerned with whether something is right or wrong
Would it be good for someone to be a doctor?
Of course, but does that mean a person should become a doctor?
The value of a doctor is good, but it is not necessarily your duty to become a doctor.
Objective is to say something is good or bad, right or wrong, independent of what anyone else believes.
The Holocaust would still be evil even if Nazi Germany had won the war and brainwashed everyone to believe they were right.
There is an overall sense of morality.
If a band of thieves started going through the city, destroying property, and taking what they wanted then we would all agree that is bad.
We would get away so we wouldn’t be victimized.
If morality is simply an evolutionary process for our survival then we may not agree with the band of thieves but we wouldn’t think they were acting poorly.
They would simply be acting different then we want to act.
Today, in our society the big word is justice.
We have all kinds of modifiers to for justice except for Godly or Biblical.
Why would people have a sense of justice?
Why would people have a desire for justice?
Because we were made in the image of God and His law is on our hearts.
What we can all agree on is that the world is not as it should be.
Why?
Why do we have a sense of what should be?
Because there are objective moral values and duties.
The sense of morality is as real as our physical senses
If someone were to push you to the ground, your physical senses would know you were pushed to the ground, and your moral senses would enraged by the hostility.
Not everyone agrees on what morals are right and wrong
In the Western world we would agree that slavery is bad.
In the Hindu world slavery is a result of karma and they had it coming.
Either way, people in both places agree there is a higher sense of morality they are appealing to.
Objective morality exists, therefore God exists
Our sense of morality transcends our time and place, it is higher than, it is above.
These morals are not created by us, because we cannot achieve them, but they are given by God.
Furthermore, the ideal morals, that senses attest to, are from God’s character
Love is good because God is love
Justice is good because God is just
Mercy is good because God is merciful
If objective morality points to God then we should follow God
Maybe we don’t fully understand His ways, but He is the Moral Arbiter, not us
The Biblical Case
“By their unrighteousness suppress the truth”
This is why nothing makes sense coming from the world, they ignore truth
The baby in the womb is not a baby, it’s a fetus.
So, why do they want to get rid of it?
Lesbian and gay say there is a difference between men and women, Trans says there is not a difference between men and women yet they are trapped in a different body
You must be inclusive, to be inclusive you have to exclude all those who are not inclusive so you can be inclusive
Is God a moral monster?
This helps prove objective morality although it is meant to disprove God
On the one hand God should stop evil, on the other hand God is wrong for stopping evil
I will put my trust in God who sent His Son to die for my sins
Romans goes on to say no one has an excuse
They didn’t want to choose God so He gave them over to their evil intentions
They have a law written on their hearts, Romans 2:14 “For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.”
Our moral sense points to God, although it can be manipulated, we have to make the choice to follow it or suppress the truth
So What
Strengthen your faith in God
Help you speak to others who have questions
Equip you to stand firm in a society that is so morally corrupt
Mark 8:38 “For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
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