The Case for Good and Evil

“There is a difference between giving the orange to the blind beggar and carefully placing the orange-peel so that the beggar may fall and break his leg. Between these two things there is a difference in kind and not of degree.”

GK Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Ethical issues may provoke some controversy, but there are certain standards we all recognise and they hold true independent of time and culture. Try to imagine an age when it was right to celebrate all those who tortured innocent babies for fun or identify a culture where men were consistently praised for doing evil towards those who had been kindest to them. Moral standards transcend time and culture because we recognise there is a way things ought to be and a way things ought not to be, but there is no “ought” without an absolute moral standard.

The Case for Good and Evil helps us identify the absolute nature of right and wrong and use it as part of a defence for the existence of God and the truth of the Christian worldview.

Romans 7:18b-19 “For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.”