Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
Sunday 2nd of March.
What happened in the Garden?
The heart of the question : Has God really spoken?
When Adam and Eve questioned the authority of God, the allurement placed before them was that they could become as God, defining good and evil. What the tempter did not tell them was that good and evil as defined by God are rooted in His character, and there is nothing contradictory in God.
Good and evil defined by fallen humanity are born out of a spirit of rebelion that results in the desintegration of life.
We live amid the devastation of three sanctities: sanctity of worship to God, sanctity of relationship toward his spose and fellow human beings and the sanctity of stewardship toward the creation.
In the Garden, God spoke, and humanity denied that He had. Humanism was born, and man became the source of meaning.
The antitheistic thinker protests that God cannot exist because there is too much evil in life. But:
- If evil exists, then one must assume that good exists in order to know the difference.
- If good exists, one must assume that a moral law exists by which to measure good and evil.
- If a morral law exists, one must posit an ultimate source of moral law, or at least an objective basis for a moral law.
- An objective basis is something that is transcendingly true at all times, regardless of whether I believe it or not.
- Evolutionary ethics? How an impersonal, amoral first cause, through a nonmoral process, has produced a moral base of life? (R. Zacharias)