If we were born with a sense of right and wrong, as I think we were, then it is because God, too, knows right from wrong, and created us with such knowledge. For example, if I were a teacher and I believed in relativism , the belief that there is no such thing as right or wrong, I could say, “I’ve decided that this semester all girls in my class will receive F’s , while all the guys will receive A’s.” The girls in the class would protest, “That’s not fair!” Automatically they would have appealed to a higher sense of fairness, of right and wrong. You’d never hear them say, “You’re so correct. There is no such thing as right and wrong. Of course it’s okay if you flunk all of us girls.”— Why? Because we are moral, rational beings. Intuitively we know right and wrong exists. We expect fair treatment, because we know real fairness should exist. It is one thing to talk about there being no absolutes, but quite another thing to live in the real world consistent with such a belief. Just as
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