Day 17 – moral and righteous
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. –C. S. LEWIS
The Argument from Fairness (5 Reasons, Days 29-37) refers us to the tendency of men and women to label things fair or unfair, right or wrong. It states outright what atheists deny—that moral absolutes exist. It presents as evidence these same atheists, who often react as if they have been wronged and as if they are absolutely right.
Having asserted that morality exists, the argument goes on to claim that it must have a supernatural origin. Since rules must transcend the field of play (in this case, nature) and the players engaged on it (human beings), the Moral Law cannot be a product of natural instincts or human opinion. It must come from a source separate from nature, from a supernatural Source. It must come from God.
The first characteristic of God that can be gleaned from this is obvious: God is moral. He wrote upon our hearts and burned within our conscience the Moral Law, so He must be concerned about morality. He must consider what is right and what is wrong to be of supreme importance. Another way to state the same thing is to say that God is righteous. He is on the side of right and opposed to the side of wrong. He gave us the Rules on how to play the game of life. He expects us to abide by them.
Daily Quotation
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001), 29.
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