Dennis Prager states that without God, there is no objective truth, no objective moral code, no natural law, that transcends relativistic, ethical human opinion, belief or inclination. Without an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing Absolute Being, there is no certain moral guide for us that is eternal and indisputable. Without God, we would not know right from wrong, for the most part, and would not be inclined to obey our duty, even if we did recognize, if we did not accept that God exists, is always watching and sees everything we do.
As a metaphysical and ethical moderate, I must disagree with Dennis that there is objective truth that is eternally certain and intellectually or intuitively accessible to our perception and understanding so that we can live by it with absolute confidence that right and wrong are immutably taped out, discernible and can be described in simple, clear but powerful language.
Though I do not know it for sure, and cannot proved that God exists, I am 99.9% sure that God exists that that something approaching what Levin describes as an eternal moral order of natural laws exists, regulates the universe and our behavior while existing in it, and is accessible and translatable into moral guidelines for us to live in accordance with, in line with God's will for humanity.
I do believe and am confident that God exists and that God made the world. I do believe that God devised natural law rules to regulate the created Cosmos. The rules are administrated by the Good Spirits that run this world.
From these natural laws, we can declare self-evident truths that lead right to our Founding Fathers and the natural rights promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and in the Ten Commandments.
Both Prager and Levin, posit that there is an eternal moral order created by the Creator, and that the certainty of these moral laws are available to guide human behavior. I, as a moderate, dispute that such actual certainty exists or is ascertainable by limited human understanding. But, these given moral laws are so close to being absolutely true and right, as is almost self-evident to our reasoning, our intuition and our experience, that they are practically certain. Practical certainty is strong enough epistemologically, theologically, ethically and metaphysically to build high human civilization on.
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