So I was reading the latest Newsweek magazine (Sept 22, 2008) the other day and ran across an article called, "Is Morality Natural?" The article suggests that all people, regardless of ethnicity, culture, gender or any other factor, have a similar view of basic ethics and morality. The bottom line, in the author's estimation, is that, "nature handed us a moral grammar that fuels our intuitive judgments of right and wrong." This "moral grammar," as it's called sounds an awful lot like something in Romans 1:19, 20. In Romans 1, Paul writes that all people are without excuse before God, "because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them, for since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." I've always taken this to mean that through careful observation of the natural world, humans could gain an adequate understanding of God. But it seems to go much deeper than that. Much can be learned through the observation of the external. But this study suggests that God's moral code, His character itself, has been etched in the lives humans since the first one walked the earth. For years, the Bible has been saying that we were created in God's image. Now science is beginning to prove it.
