tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post1446771626145157132..comments2024-03-01T07:35:49.740-08:00Comments on Come Reason's Apologetics Notes: The Moral Argument in a NutshellLenny Espositohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-70028051164302198792014-03-20T22:11:15.025-07:002014-03-20T22:11:15.025-07:00I talked to my youth group at church on this subje...I talked to my youth group at church on this subject briefly Wednesday night.<br /><br />I used on illustration first. I was drinking a cup of water. I told them that I had gotten the water from the water cooler in the hall at church. I told them about something that had happened this past weekend when I was staying at a hotel when I tried to get water from a water cooler and none came out. I went to the clerk on duty and told him something was wrong with the water cooler. I turned around then to a television we have mounted on the wall in the youth room and put my cup under it and pushed a button. I asked them would it make any sense for me to say that something was wrong with the television for not dispensing water when I pushed the button. Of course the answer was no. When I asked why the reply was that the television wasn't designed to give water like that.<br /><br />I wrote the word WRONG on the dry erase board. I asked them how many of them have ever said "there's something wrong in this world?" Virtually all of them said yes (one said she did it almost daily). I said how can we say something is wrong with the world if there is no DESIGN and no PURPOSE to the world as naturalists tell us.<br /><br />I posited 3 possibilities for them.<br /><br />1. We can believe there is no design or purpose for humans and hence there is no right or wrong, and when we say something is wrong we merely mean that we don't like it. Moral Nihilism or Moral Subjectivism <br /><br />2. We can believe there is no design or purpose for humans but there is still right and wrong. That's called a belief in an absurdity.<br /><br />3. We can believe that there is a design and purpose for humans and that to go against it is wrong. Intentional design suggests an intentional designer.shtrgrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12688439518325469688noreply@blogger.com