The Knowledge of God...You Already Know!

Morality is the issue! People live as if there is a right and a wrong. Everybody knows something is wrong. Usually it is found in the arena of human rights. (Hitler was evil. Cultures that oppress women are barbaric. Napalming babies is wrong. Name your own…!) The real question is why do we live that way and say those things? Keller cites author after author explaining the challenge that philosophers and thinkers have in trying to explain morality. Those he cite agree—without God, there really isn’t any basis for saying one thing is right and something else is wrong. Yet they do it too. We all do. People all make moral judgments, and in the eloquent words of an old Yale law professor, “Sez who?” Many of those who look at the world around us attempt to explain it by saying it’s all about the survival of the fittest. Another way to say it is to say “all of nature is based on violence.” And if that is the case, how would it be wrong for one group to trample another group. The Crucial Question “If a premise (‘There is no God’) leads us to a conclusion you know isn’t true (‘Napalming babies is culturally relative [neither good nor bad]’) then why not change the premise? There are only two answers. Either you refuse to think out all the implications of one of your foundational thoughts, or you recognize that you do know more than you thought…you do know there is a God. I know this summary is brief and to the point, but if you want to go through all the steps, you’ll have to read chapter nine of Keller’s book, The Reason for God.