How should we think biblically about morality in today's culture?

What do we say to the skeptic who insists that morality is nothing more than a matter of one's opinion?

What's the moral argument for God's existence?

And why is God even critical for a coherent view of morality?

We'll answer these questions and more with our guest, our colleague, Dr. Dave Horner,

around his new book with J.P. Moreland, and don't let the title throw you, called Meta Ethics, or as being translated, how to think about morality and ethics.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell.

This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Dave, thanks so much for joining us. We love your book. It's just

terrific. But I think we need to be aware. It is a bit on the technical side. We're going to try

our best to bring the cookies down on one of the lower shelves today. So for those who have never

heard the term before, what is meta-ethics and why does it matter? Okay, let's start more broadly. So

ethical questions are things like what sorts of things are right or wrong, good or bad,

what kind of life is a rightly ordered flourishing human life? Where do things like abortion and same-sex marriage and war and so and fit into all that?

So that's ethics, okay?

But when you dig in a little deeper, you realize that there are really two subcategories going on in ethics.

What we call normative ethics ethics which is from the term norm

or standard that's what those questions are what's good and bad right and wrong and how do we

decide that and so on but there there are some questions below the surface.

What's going on when we make moral judgments like that?

What are we talking about?

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