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I am a born-again Christian, who is Reformed, but also charismatic, spiritually speaking. (I do not speak in tongues, but I believe glossalalia is a bona fide gift not given to all, and not as great as prophecy, for example.) I have several years of college education but only completed a two-year degree. I was raised Lutheran and confirmed, but I didn't "find Christ" until I was in the Army and responded to a Billy Graham crusade in 1973. I was mentored or discipled by the Navigators in the army and upon discharge joined several evangelical, Bible-teaching churches. I was baptized as an infant, but believe in believer baptism, of which I was a partaker after my conversion experience. I believe in the "5 Onlys" of the reformation: sola fide (faith alone); sola Scriptura (Scripture alone); soli Christo (Christ alone), sola gratia (grace alone), and soli Deo gloria (to God alone be the glory). I affirm TULIP as defended in the Reformation.. I affirm most of The Westminster Confession of Faith, especially pertaining to Providence.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

How Do You Prove God Exists To The Ethics Community?

 

How can we prove to the ethics community that God exists?
  1. For ethics to exist there must be an objective standard of good/evil or right/ wrong.
  2. Plato called God the Supreme Good because we measure all goodness by Him—He is the ultimate standard of perfection.
  3. There must be someone to make the standards as the final arbiter of justice.
  4. For justice to exist, there must be due punishment (even in an afterlife) for wrongdoers and reward for just; otherwise, evildoers can escape justice.
  5. Even if God doesn’t exist, we must live as if He does for society to be possible, or to shun hell as consequences if wrong as some restraint on society and evil.
  6. “If there is no God, then, all things are permissible” (Dostoevsky) and the law of the jungle, or that might makes right, is its logical conclusion.
  7. If there is no justice, there’s no incentive to ethics; each man for himself.
  8. The main purpose of government is to reward do-goodery and punish wrongdoers.
  9. God instituted government to keep the peace and ensure justice.
  10. God is the only solution to the dilemma of why we have ethics and the incentive

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