04/24/2023 – “Does the Moral Argument Show There is a God?” by Paul Copan
Click on the symbol on the lower right to access this article. Funny, this is not the exact article by Paul Copan that I have in my Apologetics Study Bible. So, I am going to add here the last three paragraphs from the article inserted at Romans 5 in my Bible:
“An Eastern philosophical approach to ethics is monism (sometimes called ‘pantheism’: because everything is one, no ultimate distinction between good and evil exists. This serves to support relativism. A more natural context for ethics is the theistic one, in which we’ve been made by a good God to resemble Him in certain important (though limited) ways. The Declaration of Independence correctly notes that we’ve been endowed by our Creator with ‘certain inalienable rights.’ Human dignity isn’t just ‘there’. Dignity and rights come from a good God (despite human sinfulness).
Can’t atheists be moral? Yes! Like believers, they’ve been made in the image of God and thus have the ability to recognize right and wrong.
Doesn’t God Himself conform to certain moral standards outside Himself? No, God’s good character is the very standard; God simply acts and naturally does what is good. Universal moral standard have no basis if God doesn’t exist.
Soli Deo Gloria!