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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Why God Is the Best Explanation for the Existence of Objective Morality

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg explains why we should think objective morality exists and why God is the best explanation for its existence in this interview from the the Reasoned Hope podcast with Parks Edwards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's go!

0:12.0

Let's go!

0:15.0

Let's go!

0:18.0

We're going to do something a little different this show actually, excuse me, for the next two

0:37.3

shows.

0:39.5

Every once in a while I get interviewed, well, let me back up.

0:43.5

I get interviewed a lot by different people.

0:46.0

And every once in a while, I think that the interview is especially helpful to the listeners,

0:54.3

partly because of the content material, partly because of the excellence of the host.

0:59.9

And sometimes because of the excellence of the guests, I guess would be me.

1:05.5

In other words, I feel like I've done an adequate job of addressing an issue.

1:11.8

Every infrequently, though, do I get a long interview on one topic?

1:18.2

Generally, my interviews that I participate in are, well, 45 minutes to an hour, maybe

1:23.9

an hour and 15, maybe an hour and a half on the outside if we're going well and things

1:29.5

are moving along and there's a lot to say, okay?

1:34.1

The interview I want to share with you is actually two hours long.

1:38.7

And I want on this series of shows to share both of those interviews with you, in part

1:45.7

because of the topic matter, the topic in this particular case is the issue of morality.

1:56.1

Now I'm very interested in this topic, not just morality in itself and how it plays

2:02.9

out moral issues play out in culture.

2:06.8

But I'm also interested because of the broader ramifications that objective morality has

2:17.0

for the existence of God.

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