so, what is right and what is wrong?
Wow, has been a long time since I've blogged.
Been really really busy with school work. I had two assignments due Tuesday, and an Econ midterm today (which I think I didn't do so well, sighs). I have two midterms next week, and another two following week after next. Very busy. Furthermore, life is not just about school, I am busy with social life, small group, mentoring, navs, church etc. But, it has been good nevertheless.
Went for Joe Boot's talk today. He is deep Christian philosopher, and has very good insights. I missed yesterday's talk on Apologetics (which I would have been more interested in) but went for todays' talk on the issue most atheist attack Christians on: suffering.
It was very interesting. Well, I didn't really hear anything new since I have already heard most of his arguments from Lee Strobel's "Case For Faith" - which is excellent.
But one extremely good point he had was on the moral argument.
Often, we hear things such as "why is there suffering if there exist a God."
This indeed is contradictory. It is complaining to God, asking why He allows suffering.
However, a very important thing to note is that the person is already acknowledging the existence of God!
Anyway, I will start his argument now:
What is moral right and moral wrong? Is it merely humanistic (as in we decide for ourselves that it is right or wrong?) Okay...let's say if we humanly decides it is right or wrong, and that there is no God...then that itself is a contradictory statement. Why? Because if there is no God, then the world is dysteleological (no plan, purpose, design) and everything that happened merely happened by pure blind chance. In saying that, then we cannot say there is a right or wrong - since the world has no purpose, and that there is no objectivity. There is only subjectivity. So, this means that murder is also a random choice thingy which a person happens to do - no wrong or right. But is that true? Are we able to say that murder is just a "random" thing which people do due to their DNAs (which are also a random chance?).
No, of course not. We ALL know that murder is wrong. Therefore, we are saying that there is a moral right and moral wrong. As the Old Testament says, the law is written on our hearts (which is a revelation itself of the existence of God). And in "knowing" that there is a moral right and moral wrong, there has to be the "moral creator" - God. So therefore, when you complain that the world is full of suffering, you are already acknowledging that there is God, there is a moral right and wrong.
Been really really busy with school work. I had two assignments due Tuesday, and an Econ midterm today (which I think I didn't do so well, sighs). I have two midterms next week, and another two following week after next. Very busy. Furthermore, life is not just about school, I am busy with social life, small group, mentoring, navs, church etc. But, it has been good nevertheless.
Went for Joe Boot's talk today. He is deep Christian philosopher, and has very good insights. I missed yesterday's talk on Apologetics (which I would have been more interested in) but went for todays' talk on the issue most atheist attack Christians on: suffering.
It was very interesting. Well, I didn't really hear anything new since I have already heard most of his arguments from Lee Strobel's "Case For Faith" - which is excellent.
But one extremely good point he had was on the moral argument.
Often, we hear things such as "why is there suffering if there exist a God."
This indeed is contradictory. It is complaining to God, asking why He allows suffering.
However, a very important thing to note is that the person is already acknowledging the existence of God!
Anyway, I will start his argument now:
What is moral right and moral wrong? Is it merely humanistic (as in we decide for ourselves that it is right or wrong?) Okay...let's say if we humanly decides it is right or wrong, and that there is no God...then that itself is a contradictory statement. Why? Because if there is no God, then the world is dysteleological (no plan, purpose, design) and everything that happened merely happened by pure blind chance. In saying that, then we cannot say there is a right or wrong - since the world has no purpose, and that there is no objectivity. There is only subjectivity. So, this means that murder is also a random choice thingy which a person happens to do - no wrong or right. But is that true? Are we able to say that murder is just a "random" thing which people do due to their DNAs (which are also a random chance?).
No, of course not. We ALL know that murder is wrong. Therefore, we are saying that there is a moral right and moral wrong. As the Old Testament says, the law is written on our hearts (which is a revelation itself of the existence of God). And in "knowing" that there is a moral right and moral wrong, there has to be the "moral creator" - God. So therefore, when you complain that the world is full of suffering, you are already acknowledging that there is God, there is a moral right and wrong.
posted by Grace at 2/04/2005 11:34:00 PM
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