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2.3 Moral Argument
This argument eissures us that every man has a sense of obligation to what is right and wrong and every human society heis a sense of morality. This moral nature reveals that human sense is more than that of an intelligent ani mal, for we are created in the image of a rational, spiritual, and moral being. Paul states in Romans 2:15 that men "...shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another...." We conclude that there is a permanent moral knowledge, and that it has supreme and abiding authority over us. This knowledge gives mankind the ability to distinguish betweengoodandevil,rightandwrong. Evolutionistsdonotliketoadmit
this, for they like to think of everything as constantly changing and improving.
Scriptures say, "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee." (Micah 6:8), and "God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:14). In other words this affirms human conscience, and recognizes the existence of a great lawgiver and the certain
ty of punishment of the violators of His law.
The above arguments taken together could give answers to all moral, material, and spiritual questions or needs that would arise in the human mind. For instance, did not the scientific mind reach thrilling discoveries by applying theories assuming the existence of infinitely small particles of mat ter and gravitational laws governing the universe?
To believe in a personal, self-sufficient, and self-revealing God, is in har mony with our moral and mental nature. This along with its accompanying religious experience is a dep)endable concept. No philosophical ideas, whether from atheism, pantheism, and agnosticism, can provide an ade quate answer to satisfy the human heart. Therefore, we conclude from these arguments that there is a personal, self-existent, ethical, and self-revealing God, and that He is the incomprehensible, yet knowable one. (Read II Chronicles 15:1-4; Job 11:7; Jeremiah 29:12-14; Hosea 6:1-3; John 17:3;
Romans 11:33.)
Inconclusion, thetestimony ofthescriptures andtheconfirmation ofper sonal experiences assure us above all that God indeed lives and communi cates with humanity. We accept the truth of God's existence by faith in the scriptures. Scriptures give evidence thatGod is "...not farfrom every one of us" (Acts 17:27). God is "...a God at hand...not a God afar off? (Jeremiah 23:23). If any one cry unto Him, God says, "here I am" (Isaiah 58:9).
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