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One
of the many evidences for God is the moral sense within each of
us. Skeptic Bertrand Russell admitted to man's ethical nature
this way: "We feel that the man who brings widespread happiness
at the expense of misery to himself is a better man than the man
who brings unhappiness to others and happiness to himself. I do
not know of any rational ground for this view."
Philosopher Immanuel Kant also observed that
all people have a concern for ethics. In fact, no one can live
without a moral sense. He reasoned that these concerns go much
deeper than societal standards or parental discipline.
Further, Kant reasoned that this moral duty
is meaningless apart from ultimate justice. He concluded
that this universal moral sense demands a moral giver, i.e., God.
And this God must be completely just and completely omniscient.
One must ask, "Why be ethical if real justice does not prevail?"
If ethics is real, there must be judgment for it to have
any serious meaning. If death is ultimate, then no ethical mandate
is really significant. Since we know that complete justice is
not found in this life, if ethics are real and practical, justice
demands life beyond death where we will meet the just judge.
There are logically only two options: either
we have full-bodied theism with life after death where true and
ultimate justice is meted out, or we have no meaningful basis
for our ethical decisions and actions. If there is no God, all
of your ethical conclusions are meaningless. While Kant stopped
short of embracing God, embracing instead the importance of reason
in ethics, he admitted that "We must live as though there
were a God."
In other words, if there is no just God, and
morality is flexible, why be moral at all? Carried to its logical
conclusion, immoral behavior, even at its worst, does not matter.
As explained by R. C. Sproul, a moral choice without God would
be an effect without a cause, which is irrational! The
agnostic must ask himself, "Why should I be moral today?"
Put more simply, either God is or God
is not. Even atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair recognized that
there is no in between on this issue. She said that an agnostic
is just an atheist without guts. As put by Phillip Johnson (in
his book Reason in the Balance), it may be rational to
argue about whether God is real or unreal, but it is clearly irrational
to assume that a God who is real can safely be ignored.
If God exists, agnosticism is eternally unwise.
Blaise Pascal offered his famous "Pascal's Wager." He
pointed out that either God is or he is not. To bet that God does
not exist, or that you do not know that he exists, has nothing
to gain and everything to lose. If God does exist, your only opportunity
to win eternal happiness is to believe. If God exists, justice
demands total faith, hope, love, obedience, and worship. Because
temporal death is certain, one CANNOT NOT CHOOSE to make a decision
about God. We must make the wager. Here's a link for more on Pascal's
Wager: http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm.
Summarizing Scripture, Boa and Moody explain
that agnosticism is not simply an intellectual process of reserving
judgment. It is really a suppression of the truth that God has
implanted within the human heart (Romans 1:18-20).
R.C. Sproul flatly states that there is nothing
more pitiful than the position of the relativist/secular humanist.
There is a gaping logical difficulty with the view of those who
claim that we came from nowhere and are going to nowhere, yet
life is filled with meaning in between! This position is impossibly
inconsistent and incoherent.
From the perspective of evidential history,
which philosophy produces meaning and purpose to life: nihilism
(the doctrine of ultimate unknowingness) or Christian hope? It
was Nietzsche's atheism and Darwin's naturalism that provided
the justification for the holocaust. Such is the logical result,
taken to the extreme, of life without God. Powerful resources
on this subject include those by Zacharias listed in the resource
list.

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