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Morality requires a god


Is God necessary for absolute morality? - Richard Dawkins Foundation

Christians and other religious people often argue that God is required for absolute morality. The agument usually goes something like this:

Moral argument - Religions Wiki

If God does not exist, morality does not exist. Morality exists. Therefore, God exists. This is a deductively valid argument, which is to say if ...

Can Morality Be Objective without God? - Rational Realm

Christian apologists C. S. Lewis, William Lane Craig say moral judgments not objective without God judging right and wrong; ethics subjective without ...

Secular morality - Wikipedia

The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics however states that religion and morality "are to be defined differently and have no definitional connections ...

The Moral Argument for God's Existence - Moral Apologetics

The moral argument for God's existence says that God exists because He is the best explanation for the fact that there are objective moral truths.

Can Objective Morality Exist Without God? - The Life

If the God of classical theism exists, an objective foundation for morality would also exist. God's holy and good nature provides a foundation for the moral ...

God Exists! He is the Moral Standard for all Humanity!

We have an understanding of moral standards innately because our Creator IS the standard for morality! We Know we are to be truthful because God ...

God and the ontological foundation of morality

4 Before moving on, though, we need to get much clearer about what is being identified with what. For example, love is a prime moral value, but I take it that ...

Can atheists be moral?

Since atheists, reject God, atheists can have no basis for morality. This is really two separate arguments: (1) that God is the source of objective morality and ...

God and the Basis of Morality - jstor

of us. Indeed, nothing in such a world is morally required of us. If there is no. God the concept of moral requiredness becomes a Holmesless Watson. A vari-.

The Moral Argument for God's Existence: Some Thomistic Natural ...

It is not merely the fact that, since morality needs humans and humans need God, then morality needs God. Rather, there are important ...

God and Morality - Terpconnect

monarch; moral requirements are God's laws. ... An ambitious divine-command theorist might try to convince philosophers in general that morality requires religion ...

A Moral Argument for the Existence of a Personal God

... requires that God is personal. Is there evidence that a personal God actually exists? Enter the moral argument. The moral argument, like other classical ...

Moral Standards and Goodness Can't Exist Without God

Moral Standards and Goodness Can't Exist Without God ... Atheists' argument that goodness and moral standards can exist without God does not hold ...

Morality and God - 1776 Words - Bartleby.com

Moral standards come from God and without Him a person cannot be moral. When we talk in absolutes we ignore possibilities that exist outside of our beliefs.

Dear Theophilus: Where Does Morality Come From? | GCU Blog

The simple, straightforward answer to your question about the source of morality is this: God is the source of morality.

Know God, Know Good: God & Objective Morality

In other words, they need a foundation. If objective morals do not depend on our limited faculties, then answers to the following questions are ...

Morality without Religion

Yet problems abound for the view that morality comes from God. One problem is that we cannot, without lapsing into tautology, simultaneously say that God is ...

A Moral Argument for God, Part 2 - North American Mission Board

There are three deep moral needs we as human beings display, and this version of the moral argument addresses all three: our need to be forgiven ...

Craig on God and Morality - PhilArchive

169–85; and Philip Quinn, Divine Commands and Moral Require- ments (Oxford UK: Clarendon Press, 1978) are among the vast literature. 2William Lane Craig and ...