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 would be that no right or wrong would 

exist and no need for remorse. There will be no "I'm sorry," 

and no excuse me;" just a flagrant use of time for whatever a 

person wants to do, to whomever they can do it to without

consequence.

There will also be no good, and no evil in a world without God

since good and evil are concepts of morality. The idea of

morality comes from the moral giver. Without the moral

compass of God, an entire people could degenerate into pure

evil, which history bears out in our Bibles:

"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the

earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart

was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had

made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart"

(Genesis 6:5-6).

If there be no moral giver (no God), a person's life is no more

significant than that of a flock of birds, a swarm of mosquitoes,

or of that of a tick on the hind part of a cow. Life is then

meaningless, doomed to the grave without purpose for its

existence. All would be vanity, according to the writer of the

Book of Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20). I would rather die

and be with the Lord than live in such a world.