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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 Adolf 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 would 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 would 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 were no moral giver (no God), a person’s life would be no more significant than that of a flock of birds, a swarm of mosquitoes, or a tick on the hind part of a cow. Life would then be meaningless, doomed to the grave without purpose for its existence. All would be vanity, according to the writer of the Book of Ecclesiastes:
“For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return” (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20).
I would rather die and be with the Lord than live in such a world.
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