Aug
27
Moral Realism
Filed Under Devotional
I’m revving up my apologetics studies when I can find the time. I absolutely love it. There’s nothing more exciting than learning how to defend the truth that can’t be defeated. I know I’ll never have to hide a defect or cover up a hole in my argument. It’s just a matter of learning more of the truth.
Today, I came across a term that’s obviously used frequently in philosophy that I hadn’t heard before. The concept of Moral Realism is not new, but I hadn’t heard that term. The idea is that morals are just absolute truths of life that we all recognize regardless of our world view. For example, people of (almost) all persuasions will agree that killing someone without cause is bad. Why do we all believe that?
The atheist will use an array of explanations like, “Morals aren’t inherent. They come from society,” or, “It’s behavior that we have as a result of our evolution,” or they just ignore the problem altogether.
The believer, on the other hand, has a clear, concise reason why all men inherently know about absolute morals: God place them there.
“(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)” Romans 2:14-15
God has “written on their hearts”. How else do philosophical ideas become effectively universal? Someone placed them there.
Lay that out and watch the atheist do handstands to explain it away.