Morality and creation

Morality is grounded in the nature of God himself

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Human beings are morally aware

They are created in God’s image

Genesis 1:26–27 NASB95

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

They have a conscience

Romans 2:14–15 NASB95

For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

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They have been given a moral law

; ; Standards for marriage are implicit in the creation.

They are capable of sharing moral ideals

; ; “whole family” is literally “all fatherhood”, implying that every understanding of fatherhood and family is derived from God; refering to pagan virtues; ;

Immoral acts are unnatural

Romans 1:26–27 NASB95

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

God’s judgment implies moral responsibility

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Human beings are morally flawed

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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