Let me reason with you

It's not enough to argue a creator based on morality. If there is a God, He has surely revealed Himself through this creation, it would resemble part of Himself, just as I can't write something objectively. There are always reflections of ourselves in our creations. I think that mentioning beauty and ugliness in my previous post briefly should have caught your attention, although, again, I'm not going to elaborate any further than that.

To draw onto all of the 'religions' in the loosest sense of the word and look at their concepts of creation, they all resemble a 'Big Bang' of some kind far more than the Christian account. By this I mean that they all describe as the world coming together out of chaos, whether it be a war between 2 gods where on wins and the others destruction is used to create life, or the more classic and (apparently most widely accepted fact among scientists) convincing idea of 'The Big Bang Theory' where something verytinyindeed exploded for no obvious reason at the exact speed needed to have everything neatly form after everything has been colliding for billions of years.

The Christian idea of creation is, unfortunately for some, best described by Genesis, where the world comes together in sections, an order that is all good and made to be the place where everything works together. This is the only, I repeat ONLY, account of the creation of the universe where everything comes out of harmony, love, and peace. So, if we are to reason my last post into this post, morality (or at least the sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly) must come from a starting of harmony, rather than a starting of chaos. We want the world to become better, which would come from it once being that very thing, rather than wanting and willing it to get worse, which is what the motivation would be if that is where we had come from and where we were headed. (We are not headed for total annihilation as I believe, at least, see this post.)

There's not much more I can say to flesh this out. The bones are there and it's up to you to really decide if what I am saying is good enough to explore Jesus further. The fact is, if we were not from this ordered creation, our sense of morality wouldn't be as it is. Our very nature points to an ordered and loving God. Our frustration with the world matches His. The release that comes from knowing there is a hope is the great sense that Jesus death bore the pain forgiveness brings, and His life brought to life the hope needed to carry this life through to completion. His life, a prototype for ours, has moved forward to show in many ways how our need to improve the world is grounded, perfectly, in an eschatology (eschatology literally means the study of the last days, but I really just mean the certainty of our future) that brings to birth a new heavens and new earth. The old earth is burned up by fire, destroying what is perishable, the evil, and ugly, and all the things that have come from the frustration of the whole world; and leaving only what is imperishable; the things God called good in the beginning, and those works and motivations that brought the hope closer, working with Jesus on His great project. This brings renewal and the future of God's people is carried on. (More on God's people next time.)