The Problem of Life Without God
The Problem of Life Without God What if God did not truly exist? What would be the problem? We will deal with that issue now. What if there were no God and no such thing as the wages of sin? What if we lived forever, and what if that eternal life was without God? Would we be in a sort of paradise? My answer is this: I would prefer death rather than live in such a world. Let me explain. The problem with the absence of God is that there would be no objective standard of right and wrong. Right and wrong would be mere objects of personal tastes or by-products of conditioning or socio-biological evolution. In other words, all our actions would be permissible depending on what society's fickle sensibilities could bear. Without objective standards, who is to say what Adolph Hitler did to the Jews in World War II has any more or less value than the work of Mother Teresa in India? This is a question of morality and there can be no morals in a world without a moral giver. The result w