Is it possible for a person to know the difference between right and wrong without a belief in God? Also, how would you define “morality”?
Mar 6, 2007
It is my belief that apart from the knowledge of and trust in an absolute standard rendered by God in His Word, there is no definitive right and wrong.
As for a definition of morality, allow me to quote from The Moral Quest: Foundation of Christian Ethics by Stanley Grenz: “Some people differentiate between ethics and morality (or morals). They see the former as more theoretical or general—hence the study of the right and the good—and the latter as more specific and practical, that is, the practice or living out of what one believes to be right and good. Hence morality involves the actual living out of one’s beliefs that such things as lying and murder are wrong, whereas ethics entails the study of why it is that these practices are immoral.”
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