Exodus 20:1-17
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
When God gave us the Ten Commandments many, many years ago, He shows us that He is a Moral God...Morality and these Ten Commandments and where they came from are a reason to believe in God...I believe that there is this One Universal Law Giver, and He is God...He Completely Understands all things and gives us not only the finely tuned natural laws of nature, but also gives us the Absolute Objective Moral laws of the universe...There are rights and there are wrongs in life...There is goodness and there is evil in life...And out of these rights and wrongs and in the goodness and from the evils -we better see morality in the world...And this thing of ethics and morality came from some where...Morality comes from God's Laws...They started in written form with the Ten Commandments...The Ten Commandments come from God...So our morality comes from God...
To say that morality evolved or happened by mere random chance, means that mankind could just as easily supported evil and murder, and genocide since our creation...But one can see morality is a standard set by Something or Someone...And somehow mankind can see this standard and can measure these things of goodness and evil...This Standard measures our daily decisions and actions...
C. S. Lewis said this about morality...“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.”...Lewis said, “The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other...But the standard that measures two things is something different from either...You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people’s ideas get nearer to that real Right than others...Or put it this way...If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something—some Real Morality—for them to be true about.”...
If we could go back and ask the ancient Hebrews, Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, I would think that their morality ideas pretty much matched up with our sense of morality today...So, if you believe this, then morality has been around for quite some time...Lewis said this about the ancient thinkers and morality..."Now this Law or Rule about Right and Wrong used to be called the Law of Nature...Nowadays, when we talk of the "laws of nature" we usually mean things like gravitation, or heredity, or the laws of chemistry...But when the older thinkers called the Law of Right and Wrong "the Law of Nature," they really meant the Law of Human Nature...The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law--with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey it."...
If morality is subjective and subject to each of our own personal views, then how did the world come to similar views on rights and wrongs and on human rights, and on morality...How does the non-believer argue for evolving morality...How did the mind get to goodness over evil...There is as Lewis says this Real Morality...Without a Standard Morality Point evil and good would be equal...And the world does view rights as rights and wrongs as wrongs, and has viewed rights and wrongs -ever since the ancient times...Evil is evil, and is not good...So, therefore, morals are more holistic that include being fair to others, fair-play and fair-minded to all and are more of the world view...There is this world view on human rights and a universal right and wrong...Objective morals do exist...They are not subjective to each individual...
Lewis saw that in each of our minds and our thoughts, there is this sense of fair play, being fair-minded, and we want to behave in a better way...He saw a universal right and wrong, and he saw a Universal Law Giver, as Real Morality...And Lewis saw that this right and wrong type thinking came from God, and is an argument for His existence...Morality is a reason to believe in God...Goodness can and does exist if there is only this baseline to measure it...And that Baseline is God...God is how we measure right and wrong...This Baseline is close to us, but is independent from us...Being independent from us, allows morality to be judged and measured...And the One who measures the world's objective moral values is God...God is the Ultimate Judge of man's morality...So in the universe morality is not subjective, but objective...And we have an Objective Moral One...We have a Standard Morality Point from where we get our standard of morality, and we call Him God...