Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, an excurses on Natural Theology, Part 18.

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In our excurses in natural theology, we've talked about the proper basicality of belief in God.

We have looked at the cosmological argument from contingency.

We've examined the kalam cosmological argument, and most recently completed a study of the teleological argument

based on the fine tuning of the universe for a cosmic designer.

Today we want to turn our attention to a new argument which is the moral argument for

God's existence.

And we can begin thinking about this by asking ourselves a question, can we be good without

God?

Now at first blush, the answer to this question might seem so obvious that even to pose

it is apt to make people angry.

For while we Christians find in God a source of moral strength that enables us to lead better lives than we should have without him,

nevertheless it would be arrogant and ignorant to claim that non-believers do not often lead good moral lives.

In fact, lives that sometimes put our own lives to shame, if we're honest.

But wait a minute, it would indeed be arrogant and ignorant to claim that people cannot be good

without believing in God. But that wasn't the question. The question was, can we be good without

God? And when we ask that question, we're posing in a provocative way a question about the nature

of moral values.

Are the moral values that we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions like driving on the right hand versus the left

hand side of the road?

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