Thank you, Tarick, for your commitment to these high school students to equip them to better understand and defend their faith! What you’re doing is marvelous and a model for all of us. May some of our readers be inspired by your example to follow suit and volunteer to lead such groups in their churches!
I hate to keep pounding the same point, but your question seems to be based on the old conflation of moral ontology and moral epistemology. I think that keeping this distinction clear is perhaps the most important point in understanding the moral argument. So it bears repeating: “Moral ontology has to do with the objective reality of moral values and duties. Moral epistemology has to do with how we come to know moral values and duties. The moral argument is wholly about moral ontology; it says nothing about how we come to know moral values and duties.” In particular, it says nothing about how people came to know their moral duties prior to their hearing about the Ten Commandments.
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