Do you think God’s moral law can be reached on a secular level (such as the prohibitions on theft and murder damaging society, and so being immoral) completely, or just some aspects of it? That is, can God’s morality be derived from extra-biblical sources at all?

February 21, 2012

Anonymous asked: Do you think God's moral law can be reached on a secular level (such as the prohibitions on theft and murder damaging society, and so being immoral) completely, or just some aspects of it? That is, can God's morality be derived from extra-biblical sources at all?

St. Augustine said there are two levels of existence: The natural and the supernatural. All that God ordained for the natural is discernible through reason, natural law, for example.

The supernatural can only be revealed by revelation.