Do Morals Exist?

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This week I read a scripture, "All men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil." 2 Nephi 2:5. But is this really true? It seems like a lot of people in the world seem to have a different senses of good and evil. I mean think about all the terrorism in the world. Or the huge debates about abortion and gay rights that are sweeping our country. Are we all really instructed sufficiently in good and evil. Why is the argument of good versus evil so prevalent today?

I want to tell you that we have been instructed sufficiently. God is not a liar and this scripture is true. A big argument an atheist will claim is that if God is so good why does he let so many bad things happen in the world. Automatically this argument contradicts itself. Obviously this person, because he makes this statement, feels that is there is injustice. That there is a standard for what is right and that it is being broken. He feels that the world is not as it should be. But how can this be if there is no God. Where does this atheists feelings of injustice come from? 

Many people will argue that what this person is feeling is an instinct, but that is only partly true. It is true all of us have instincts everyday. Suppose you hear someone in distress and danger call for help. Two instincts will immediately come upon you. The first is to go and to help that person. The second is to keep preserve yourself and stay out of danger. But then a third idea comes to your head. It is to follow the first instinct to help rather than the second. What is this third voice that judges between the two options we have? It is the light of Christ.

Everybody has the light of Christ. Nobody makes an argument about what is right or wrong without appealing to or mentioning this standard that is somehow built in us. "Hey why did you drink that milk? It was mine." "Tell me the truth. It will be better for you."  This escalates to all debates, including the biggest ones in our society now. Even the very argument of whether or not God exists makes reference to this moral code that we all have.

"Wherefore I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil;" Moroni 7:18. We all have the light of Christ in us. What we can tell from observing the world and from scriptures is that we do not always obey. The more we do listen though the easier it becomes and the happier we become. I like Moroni invite everyone to listen to that light so that we can "be a child of Christ." Moroni 7:18