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"Is this the day I die?" wonders Li Quan as he endures persecution for his faith. Half a world away his college buddy, businessman Ben Fielding, steps on the plane to China. Reunited after 20 years, both men face decisions that will determine their destinies---and the fates of their nations and the world. 400 pages, softcover from Tyndale.

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Moral Values Come From God

You say: Moral values DO NOT derive their source from human experience.

You are right, moral values do not derive from human experience. Moral values come from the one who knows us best and knows what is best for us--our creator, God.

If moral values derived from human experience, we would be living in a chaotic world. We'd never know what was right and what was wrong, because moral values would change as human experience changed. Moral values would also vary from culture to culture.

For example, if we based moral values on human experience we'd still have slavery in America. The human experience in the south was the slavery was morally okay. What right would anyone else have to tell another group of people that their morals, based on their human experience, were wrong? We all would do what was right in our own eyes.

The book of Judges shows us what happens when everyone does what is right in their own eyes, based on their own experience. It's not good.

Moral values are absolute, unchanging, and not a product of human experience. Moral values come from God and are taught to us through the Bible.