The Moral Argument Against God By C. S. Lewis

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"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I gotten this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? - C.S. Lewis". Every person recognizes some sort of moral code. The Moral Argument, it is only because of God that we know what morality is. Therefore every time we argue over right and wrong we appeal to a higher power, that power being God. Because morality is present in every human, that proves the existence of God. "Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." - Alexis de Tocqueville. All humans have a sense of …show more content…
I ran up to him and started punching him, over and over. When I got home my parents had got a call from the school. My Dad sat me down and began to lecture me, when he was done talking I replied, "But Dad he was bullying me, I was completely justified in what I did" and he responded with "you may have been justified but that does not mean that it was right. Let me ask you, is it wrong to hurt some one?" to which I replied yes, and he asked me why? I did not hesitate to answer and immediately blurted out "because it is just wrong!". All of a sudden I was caught, you see I knew it was wrong even at a young age, for no other reason then just because. We all have morality, we do not always listen to it but never the less it is present in every human that was, is or ever will be. As the great C.S. Lewis said "A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.".

The morality argument summed up is:

Objective morality cannot exist unless God exists.
Objective morality exists.
Therefore, God exists.
Which often leaves people with questions and arguments against it. One of these is “But I’m a moral person and I don’t believe in God. Are you saying that
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I have always found this argument helpful, at the time when I first heard it it was simple for me to understand and throw in the face of my non christian friends. Now that I am able to understand it deeper I am able to find more and more merit in it. It is a simple, yet thought provoking way to explain the existence of God with out ruffling too many feathers or rubbing people the wrong way. For myself, I work with non christian youth, this is something that I can explain to them and they will understand, opposed to the ontological argument which would just go right over their heads. The Morality argument is something that everyone can relate to on some level because every one has some sort of experience with morality. An argument impacts a person far more when the can relate to it and make an emotional connection to it. That is why I think this argument is so effective for so many people, because it does just that. Including C.S Lewis who was quoted at the beginning. This argument is perhaps the thing that had the greatest impact, with the exception of the Holy Spirit, on his conversion to Christianity. I have found in my experiences this argument has done a lot for many people, whether leading them to Christ or affirming what they already believed, including myself. I will close this out with one of C.S. Lewis