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A Single Argument
Books 1 & 2 of Mere Christianity
This is Book One
Does God exist or
not?
Does God Exist or Not?
Two Foundational Claims
People Ought to behave a certain way
Two Foundational Claims
People don't behave that way
Maybe morality is just instinct or social convention?
The world is not the way it's supposed to be
Is God Personal
or not?
Is God personal or not?
Pantheism: God is the Sum Total of all there is
Pantheism: God is the sum total of all there is
The "moral God" religions
Theism: God is a personal being
Is there one personal God or more than one?
Is there one personal God or more than one?
Many personal gods: Paganism
Two personal gods: Dualism
One personal God: Classical Theism
Islam, Judaism, or Christianity?
Which of the religions with one personal God?
What do we do with Jesus?
"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am."
John 8:58
Lewis moved from naturalism to theism because of the moral argument. But does the moral argument work? Recall...
Moral Argument
1. If there is a moral law, there must be a moral lawgiver.
2. There is a moral law.
3. There is a moral lawgiver.
Argument from moral law
Now the will does not have the character of a first rule, rather, it is a rule which has a rule, for it is directed by the intellect and reason. This is true not only in us but also in God...., Consequently the first thing upon which the essential character of all justice depends is the wisdom of the divine intellect....to say that justice depends simply upon the will is to say that the divine will does not proceed according to the order of wisdom, and that is blasphemous.
Divine Intellect and Divine Will
Moral Natural law in the restoration movement...
Positive Law and Natural Law
If we can have moral obligations without God's commands, then doesn't that mean we can have a moral law without a moral lawgiver?
But if there can be a natural law...
1. If there is no God, then scientific materialism is true.
2. If scientific materialism is true, then the only basis for moral goodness, for positive moral value, is in the actual evaluations made by humans, so that the actual evaluations made by human communities CAUSE the existence of moral goodness.
3. But human evaluations DON'T cause the existence of moral value.
Argument from moral value
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