Moral Consciousness

We are in our fourth week of the apologetics series of building a cumulative case involving several lines of converging testimonial evidence that clearly demonstrates, not only that God exists, but that he loves us and is personally involved with us.

The first couple of weeks, we looked at the testimonies from Cause and Effect and Design and Purpose. In a nutshell, the universe had a beginning, which means there must have been a cause. God, who is eternal and infinite, is the Uncaused Cause of the universe. The universe, nature, and life itself appear to be intricately designed. We know that if something is designed, there must be a designer. This tells us that there must be a Great Designer for the universe, nature, and life itself. 

Last Sunday, we looked at the religious nature of man which is comprised of three areas of evidence that point to God’s existence: Common Consent, Emptiness and Divine Longing, and Religious Experience. The reason these three areas exist is because man was designed for God. Since he is designed for God, he has a need for God but attempts to fill that need horizontally, through the finite things of the world, or vertically, through various religions and rituals. 

This Sunday, we will look at another area of testimony associated with the nature of man, and that is man’s moral consciousness. The best explanation for the innate understanding of morality that humans have is that it is part of our design by the Moral Law Giver.