Morality and the Divine

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Two friends are sitting across from each other having a talk about the nature of morality. One friend asks, “Can there be absolute, universal truths?” The other friend replies “No. However, there is such a thing as my truth and your truth, everybody has their own truth.”

The other friend ponders this response. “If that’s true, and there are no objective truths, how can you truly know that I have a truth and you have a truth?”


The scenario paints an important picture about human nature. Human beings have an instinctive understanding about what is right and what is wrong. This sense of right and wrong is usually referred to as morality. This article will provide a sufficient argument for proving God’s existence through morality.

One heavy debate among atheists and theists is the question of whether morality necessitates a divine being. Of course, the answer is yes. One step toward an answer is that throughout different religions in multiple time periods of the world, morality has always consisted of basically the same principles. Most religions, for example, share the Golden Rule (“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”). This points to something outside of time, something objective, that morality reflects.

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