What is truth? Where did it come from? What is a human being? How do we know right and wrong? What is beauty? What happens when we die?

You'll find answers to these questions in the issues etc said are a book of the month for May

prepared with the reason it's published by Concordia Publishing House their phone

number 1-800 325 3040 or learn more about prepared with the Reason at issues ETC.org

equipping Christian high schoolers young adults and adults to defend the

Christian faith prepared with the reason.

There was a long time centuries, for a millennia in human history, where the ethical system, regardless of where you lived or what you believed, was more or less

congruent.

There are certain things, and in the Christian tradition it is of course the 10 Commandments at the heart of that ethical system and it shouldn't surprise anyone that for centuries there were things like the 10 Commandments in other cultures and religions.

They are all, after all, written by God onto our hearts.

But there has become a disconnect between ethics when we decided that ethics was something that was sourced

not outside of ourselves by some sort of enduring objective moral law but rather sourced from within ourselves.

Welcome back to issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin on this Thursday, May the 9th.

We're going to talk about the source of ethics.

Pastor Joe Cox joins us.

He's director of curriculum and education

at Lutheran High School South in St. Louis.

He's author of the chapter in our issues Etceter, Book of the Month,

paired with a reason titled, We Should Know Better.

Joe, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

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