Good Without God — by what Standard?

Too bad about yardsticks, and meter sticks, they are not making them any longer.

In the physical world, there are units of measure which are standardized. Otherwise, your yard or meter would be different from my yard or meter, and so on. Confusion would result.

Morality is similar to this (and therefore, ethics). Professing atheists often claim to be "good without God." Yes, atheists do good things. However, atheist organizations like this one often trample the rights of Christians through legislative coercion because they think they are doing good. Atheists are inconsistent.

Measuring devices and office supplies, Unsplash / Dan Cristian Pădureț

An angry misotheist recently parroted Clinton Richard Dawkins, judging God as narcissistic, sick and sadistic. This was in response to a post was made about the Genesis Flood. He also indicated that he hates Christians. When I pointed out that he was using his own arbitrary standard, he had a snarky reaction.

This sort of thing happens many times. Atheism is incoherent, and its practitioners cannot account for morality. Some rate their goodness by comparing themselves to other people. Indeed, many hate a consistent moral standard, preferring to do what is right in their own eyes. In addition, they claim that morality evolves and society makes the rules.

Secularist logic fails when they are pressed to make sense of moral standards. If a law was passed and we were going around holding toilet plungers, blasting and shouting, "Ex-ter-min-ate all ath-e-ists!" that would be all right? By their standard, they should agree with the law. I wouldn't. Moral standards are another reason why atheism falls to the ground. When they complain that something is not right, they are inadvertently appealing to a higher standard.

It may come as a shock, but professing Christians cannot compare their goodness with each other or society. In fact, we need to be influencing society and culture. Our ultimate standard comes from the Word of God.

Secularists insist that people can be good without believing in God. They’ll say they don’t need to know there’s someone watching them to do good and avoid wrong. And they’re right, well, sort of. They do not need to know or acknowledge God to be good, but the reason why they are good is only explained by the fact that the biblical God is real. What does this mean?

The rest of this short article is located at "By What Standard?"