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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Why Objective Moral Truth Is Best Explained by the Existence of God

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

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Christianworldview, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianapologetics, Forensicfaith, Colsoncenterforchristianworldview, Christian, Christianity, Evidenceforchristianity, Faithandreason, Godscrimescene, Coldcasechristianity, Apologetics, Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines the nature and existence of objective, transcendent moral truths. If such truths truly exist, how can we account for them? Is there a naturalistic explanation for moral truth or is the best explanation the existence of an objective, transcendent moral law giver?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.

0:07.6

Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:12.7

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

0:17.0

For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity, please visit

0:21.2

coldcasechristianity.com.

0:23.5

Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:27.5

Thanks for joining me once again here at Cold Case Christianity.

0:29.6

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:30.6

Now today we're going to talk about really an evidence for God's existence that some folks

0:36.3

are kind of overlooked, They take it for granted.

0:38.7

And many of us in the church who maybe haven't thought deeply about whether or not there is,

0:42.3

there are these kinds of evidences for the existence of God might overlook this altogether.

0:47.1

And that is that objective transcendent moral truths are best explained by God's existence.

0:55.0

In other words, there are a number of objective transcendent moral principles that we take for

1:00.0

granted that we employ every day.

1:02.0

And we sometimes think that we've created these for ourselves or they've emerged some other way

1:08.0

without realizing that in fact the best explanation for such objective

1:11.4

transcendent moral truths is in the the foundation the existence of a transcendent

1:17.6

objective moral truth giver which of course would be God now the first step in even

1:24.0

trying to understand this or trying to explain this to anybody or trying to even assess

1:27.1

it for ourselves is to really first ask the question, are there really objective, transcendent, moral truths?

1:34.3

Now I will tell you that I've talked about it here on this broadcast in the past. The vast majority of people in our culture really struggle with this, and the church is not much better.

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