Matthew 7:12
Treat Others Like You Want to be Treated
12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 17:20
Strong Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed
20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Jesus teachings about the Golden Rule makes good sense to almost everyone...Jesus not only taught us much about God, but He also teaches us much about how we are to treat others...Jesus teaches us much about morality toward others, with His teachings, stories and parables...Jesus teaches us about love, forgiveness, fair play, unselfishness, courage, good faith, honesty and truthfulness...There is much reason and common sense in much of what Jesus taught, and yet one has to have faith in many of the other things that Jesus teaches us...
Believing in some of the things Jesus teaches is easy and some of the things He teaches is hard, sometimes hard as nails...But I think everyone who has read the four gospels about Jesus, and the whole New Testament believes that Jesus is a champion of God for love, forgiveness, fair play, unselfishness, courage, good faith, honesty and truthfulness...These are things Jesus stood for and taught often...I, also, think C. S Lewis was one of the great writers about Jesus...And in his writings he helps us connect our reasoning to our faith...He helps us better understand about some of the things Jesus teaches us...
C. S. Lewis very much links God's Natural Laws to morality...In the first part of his book Mere Christianity he writes about moral law, traditional morality, and people knowing right from wrong...All people (somehow) know about right and wrong, but they do not always do it, or something gets in their way of doing the right thing...Lewis says in our lives those things about morality -are a part of the Natural Laws of God...Lewis sums these things up by saying: We learn more about God from Natural Law than from the universe in general, just as we discover more about people by listening to their conversations than by looking at the houses they build...Natural Law shows that the Being behind the universe is intensely interested in fair play, unselfishness, courage, good faith, honesty and truthfulness...However, Natural Law gives no grounds for assuming that God is soft or indulgent...Natural law obliges us to do the straight thing regardless of the pain, danger or difficulty involved...Natural Law is hard -- “as hard as nails.”...
Lewis says we learn "more" about God by observing people (and what they do in) trying to be moral, and to be better people...We do have this struggle with truth and right and wrong...The world and the people in it do not always do the right things...But people want to be better, they want to be treated fairly, they want to love and be loved, they want to be honest and others to be honest, and most people want the truth, and to believe that there is an Absolute Truth...People inherently know and feel these things...I believe that God has put in us His Natural Laws -and just enough (of them) to give us evidence about Him for people to believe (in Him)...Yet, He has left just enough things out of His Natural Laws for people, who do not want to believe -to not believe...The non-believer cannot reason through these Natural Laws enough and they have this gap of unbelief...And because everyone cannot grasp the entire Natural Law picture that He has painted for us, it takes a bit of faith to better see His Plan and picture, and in essence -each of us either fill this gap or we do not ...And for some faith becomes so hard, that there is not enough there in God's Natural Laws to give them the reasoning ability, to believe in a Father and a Son -to fill the gap...
So there becomes this gap in peoples lives, or so it seems, and the gap either gets filled or goes unfilled...So we have this choice to believe in what we see, hear, and can reason and not believe in a God...If we believe in God the gap gets filled...So we can believe in what we see, hear, and can reason and we can believe in God by taking these gaps we have -and filling them with faith...And for the non-believer these gaps are left unfilled...So in between the non-believer's reasoning and their not believing, their is still those gaps -and there is no faith...The non-believers gaps remain with them for quite some time (maybe a lifetime), or until they allow faith to enter their lives...For the believer we believe and either through something or someone we have seen, reading a Scripture, "something", or the Holy Spirit fills that gap or has partially filled it for us...The gap may be large, but even if it has something in it the size of a mustard seed in that gap, that is enough...
God and belief in Him, fills our gaps with faith...Or to put another way, we can see, hear and believe in God, and He connects these unconnected dots of ours with faith...