"Apart
from Me you can do nothing." John 15:5
To live
a life void of a belief in God frees the person from an eternal responsibility
in their own thought. This allows the person to live relative to their own
desires, passions, and lusts. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you
die." At this point there is no moral basis for their decisions because
there is no moral standard to calibrate their life. The best one can do is to
immolate another person based on the outcome desired. Without the standard of God,
there is no morality and everyone will do what is right in their own eyes.
Without a reference point, there is no right or wrong. Apart from eternity what
is man's purpose? Without a standard, necessity supersedes all other standards.
This would allow one person to kill another and to eat them if there was no
other food available. This is survival of the fittest and is only rational and
reasonable if there is no eternity.
If
humanity sets the standards for morality then humanity also sets the standards
for viability. This begins to wreak havoc in society moving it from realizing
the sanctity of life to pro-choice across the board. At this point you begin to
see post-birth abortion, euthanasia of the elderly and terminal, and will
eventually move to unnatural selection for the purpose of a determined ideal
existence.
To deny
the existence of God is to actually affirm His existence in order to deny His
existence. So then there is no wonder mankind wishes to deny God, for the point
of acknowledgement brings the dilemma of Biblical truth, eternity, heaven and
hell, and the need for salvation and worship.
Without
God there is no sin. If there is no sin then we can have no legal system. Our
legal system is founded on the laws of God. Man's existence has been shaped by
these thoughts either by compliance or rebellion. To refute God's moral
initiative would be to disallow our laws. As a society moves away from God's
moral law, it begins to decline. This is truth proven throughout history.
So
morally we cannot condemn others nor can others condemn us but only we can be
condemned by ourselves by rebellion against a moral law. Without a moral law there is no condemnation
but with a moral law, we are condemned already.
Only the moral law giver can justify the rebellion against His law.