Sojourn Preview, Thursday, 1/15

Sojourn book club will be meeting tonight at Webster's at 8:00.

We'd love to have you!

We'll be discussing chapter 9 in Tim Keller's book The Reason for God. The title of the chapter is "The Knowledge of God." If any of you have read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis you are familiar with the discussion of what Lewis calls the "moral law" which seems to inherent to humanity...the idea that we all have some common ideas about what is right and wrong (even people from different cultures have many of these same ideas), and that while this notion within us does not necessarily prove God's existence, perhaps it is a clue.

Here's an excerpt from Penguin Publishing Company's discussion guide:

In chapter 9, the author states that the real challenge is not to prove that God exists, but to recognize that
people already suspect that God exists. He points to the
human sense that certain things are right and others
are wrong. For example, protecting children from harm
is right; ethnic cleansing is wrong. In light of these
understandings, Keller writes: “[D]oesn’t that mean
you do believe that there is some kind of moral standard
that people should abide by regardless of their individual
convictions?” (p. 146). He continues: “We can’t know
that nature is broken in some way unless there is some
super-natural standard of normalcy apart from nature
by which we can judge right and wrong” (p. 155 —156).
Do you agree that a shared sense of right and wrong is an
indication of God’s existence?


Come and share your thoughts!