How can we prove to the ethics community that God exists?
- For ethics to exist there must be an objective standard of good/evil or right/ wrong.
- Plato called God the Supreme Good because we measure all goodness by Him—He is the ultimate standard of perfection.
- There must be someone to make the standards as the final arbiter of justice.
- For justice to exist, there must be due punishment (even in an afterlife) for wrongdoers and reward for just; otherwise, evildoers can escape justice.
- 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.
- “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.
- If there is no justice, there’s no incentive to ethics; each man for himself.
- The main purpose of government is to reward do-goodery and punish wrongdoers.
- God instituted government to keep the peace and ensure justice.
- God is the only solution to the dilemma of why we have ethics and the incentive
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