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christians faith, and it is. After all the very existence of evil, If God is
Good and all powerful. Why is he allow evil to exist? The
answer ofcourse is simple, FREE WILL. God allows evil to
exist because of free will. And in the christians stand point,
God tolerate evil in this world on a temporary basis, so that
one day, those who choose to love Him freely would dwell
with him in heaven free from the influence of evil but with
their free will intact in other words, God intention,
concerning evil, is to one day destroy it. Example, an atheist
give us an exams during finals weeks. Now, If I manage to get an 99
on exam by cheating, this only starts saying like a christian insisting
it is wrong to cheat, that I should have known that. And if my
actions are calculated to help me succeed, then why I should
not perform them. For christians, the fixed point of morality
would constitutes to right and wrong is a straight line and
leads directly back to God. If theres no God, theres no
reason to be moral, it is not even a standard of what moral
behavior is. For christians, lying, cheating, stealing, in my
example, stealing is a great idea in order to be forbidden.
But if God doesnt not exist by dostoevsky(in which ivan
karamazov claims), then everything is permissible. That all of
these, all of the struggle. What ever we decide here is
meaningless. If there is no God, then there are no rules to
live by, no moral law we must follow; we can do whatever we
want. Some philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre, have assumed that
Ivan is right; without God there is no moral law that tells us what we
ought to do.
If there is no God, what basis remains for objective good
or bad, right or wrong? If God does not exist, objective
moral values do not exist. Why?