The Moral Argument for God’s Existence/ A Letter against Moral Relativism

                I have been seeing a lot of people argue the morality of certain actions done by the President, or by various people in leadership. I’m sure these types of debates are nothing new, as the debate of what is good and what is evil have been a part of human identity since our creation. One of the biggest questions surrounding the topic of morality is this: “Is morality a human construct, or does morality transcend the human perspective?” What I want to present today is the moral argument for God’s existence, the concept of objective moral values pointing to God, and why even the atheist requires objective morals to make any claims on the validity/invalidity of any other worldview.

                To introduce the moral argument for God’s existence, there are a few ideas that we must first consider. The first is the idea that God is morally perfect and unchanging in these morals. The second is that we derive our morals from God, not society, as our standards. These God given morals and duties we call objective morals and duties. Now that we have that settled, we can discuss the moral argument. The moral argument goes as follows: 1) If objective moral values and duties do not exist, then God does not exist. 2) Objective moral values and duties do exist. 3) Therefore, God exists. With this presented, you might be asking the same question I was asking. What are objective morals and duties? We can look at what God has placed before us in the 10 commandments and elsewhere. We are told not to kill, steal, lie for example. I think everyone can agree that these are objectively wrong. We have an immutable standard for morality in God, who has instilled a sense of right and wrong into all of humanity, even if the individual human in question doesn’t believe in God.

                So why do atheists require objective morals? Well if they didn’t they would have only subjective morals, which will have different priorities to different people/cultures. If objective moral values and duties do not exist, God doesn’t exist, which is good for the atheist worldview, but is also means that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and all other historical despots weren’t necessarily wrong, it is only a matter of opinion. This subjectivity can lead to the unraveling of society, because that attitude of moral relativism leads to no one being able to discuss any issue, because relativists don’t have a moral standard, at least on paper. In reality, moral relativists cherry pick the issues they don’t want to be wrong on and say they are subject to interpretation, but on other issues they appeal to some arbitrary standard. The moral relativist borrows the idea of moral objectivity when it becomes convenient, but their philosophical stance places them on the sand, because their position is eroded when one asks them if their morals are objectively true.

                I would hope this brief discussion of the moral argument and objective moral values has helped you, the reader, in understanding why we must hold everyone to the standards that God has placed in scripture. If you feel that I have missed something and think it should be discussed here, please let me know. May God bless you and have a good rest of you day.