The Morality Method
1. Are there objective morals?
(No, there isn’t)
2. Well, what about killing someone unfairly? Is that wrong no matter what anyone says.
(That would be wrong)
3. Could society just agree one day that murder is right, and then it would become right?
(Nope)
4. Then are those morals objective since they can't just be changed by people?
(Yes, those are objective morals)
5. Where do objective morals come from?
(People)
6. But objective things can’t ultimately come from people, because people change their minds all the time. We can create subjective rules and opinions, but not unchanging moral truth. If you create a goal for yourself, you can also change that goal. Humanity changes standards constantly. So where does objective truths come from?
(A higher power/God.)
7. Right. For there to be truly objective moral truth, it would have to come from something higher than humanity — something beyond human opinion. In other words, God.
8. But now the question becomes: which God? There are over 4,000 religions in the world, so how do we know which one is true? I’ve looked into many different religions, and Christianity stands out to me in several ways. Christianity wasn’t founded merely by one isolated person claiming private revelation like many other religions. Historically, archaeologically, philosophically, and morally, Christianity aligns with reality and has strong evidence supporting it. But can we know Christianity is true with 100% absolute certainty?
9. No — but honestly, we can’t know anything with 100% absolute certainty. Every worldview requires some level of faith. The question is not whether you have faith, but whether your faith is grounded in good reasons and evidence. Christianity is not blind faith. It is faith based on evidence. The best way I can explain this is with a chair. Before you sit in a chair, you usually don’t inspect every screw or run scientific tests on it. But based on the evidence you have — seeing it hold people before, seeing how it’s built — you trust it enough to sit down. In the same way, I believe Christianity has enough evidence to reasonably put my trust in Jesus. But Christianity is not only about evidence. It’s also about you and God. Because if the God of the Bible exists, then the final question is... what will you do with what God says and what he did 2,000 years ago?
10. The Bible says all of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s standard. And if God is good and just, then evil must be punished. But here’s the good news: God loves us so much that He entered into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus lived the perfect life we failed to live, and He willingly died on the cross for our sins. Three days later, He rose again three days later.
what He asks of us is simply to repent which means to turn from your ways, and accept His free gift of salvation having taken all of the sins past, present, and future from those who believe.
so, the question remains... What will you do with this gift of grace?