The Conscience Confirms What Creation Reveals
Creation declares God on the outside. Conscience confirms Him on the inside. Every time someone says that's not fair, feels the sting of guilt, or burns with anger at cruelty, he is bearing witness to a moral law he did not invent and cannot escape.
Knowledge can feed pride. This study is not about becoming more impressive in arguments or winning debates. The goal is that you would know what you believe and why, so that you can speak the truth in love with a settled heart, and point people to Jesus rather than to yourself.
This study looks at two more arguments for God's existence. The moral argument reasons from the reality of right and wrong. The ontological argument reasons from the very idea of God. We will also face the hardest objection to faith, the problem of evil, and see that it points toward God rather than away from Him.
The argument that objective moral values and duties exist and bind all people, and that such a universal moral law points to a moral Lawgiver who grounds right and wrong beyond human opinion.
From the Greek for being. The argument that begins with the idea of God as the greatest being that can be conceived, and reasons that such a being must exist in reality, not only in thought.
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For Deeper Study
- Mere ChristianityAmazon C. S. LewisBook One, "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe," is a classic popular form of the moral argument. Lewis was an Anglican and held some views Baptists do not share.
- The Abolition of ManAmazon C. S. LewisA short, searching case that objective values are real and that education which denies them produces people without a moral center.
- When Skeptics AskAmazon Norman L. Geisler and Ron BrooksA handbook of short answers to common objections, including the moral argument and the problem of evil.
- God, Freedom, and EvilAmazon Alvin PlantingaA brief but demanding book containing the free will defense against the problem of evil and a modern statement of the ontological argument.
- Reasonable FaithAmazon William Lane CraigFuller treatment of the moral and ontological arguments by a non-Calvinist philosopher. Craig holds an old universe; use with discernment.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsAmazon John FoxeThe classic Protestant record of those who died for the faith, from the early church to the English Reformation.
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The Existence of God: Creation and Design
The universe had a beginning and bears the marks of design, so creation itself declares the Creator the human heart already knows.
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