Issue: Identity & Meaning in an Impersonal Universe

• What are the ramifications of originating from an impersonal universe?
• An impersonal universe is one that originates by natural causes & chance.
• In an impersonal universe, there is no creator.

• Romans 1:21-32

• God's glory is exchanged for that of human beings & nature.
• Humanity is dishonored, degraded & given over to depravity.
• We receive in our own person the due penalty of our error.
• Parallel text: Psa 106:19-20.
 
• Jeremiah 2:5

• Desert God, pursue emptiness, & you will become empty.
• Parallel texts: Job 15:31-34, Prov 28:19, Isa 41:29, 44:9-11.

• Identity

• In an impersonal universe, identity reduces from personal to chemical-physical.
• Causality & probability are at the essence of our origin, existence & being.
• Human identity is ultimately understood in terms of natural causes & chance.
 
• Meaning

• In an impersonal universe, meaning reduces to chemical-physical interactions.
• Freewill & responsibility diminish to causality & probability.
• In nature, neither size, complexity nor scarcity establish a value structure.
• Morals are degraded to natural processes such as "survival of the fittest."

• Temporary insanity - the right to murder while momentarily insane.
• Abortion - the right to murder a person yet unborn.
• Infanticide - the right to murder a newborn.
• Euthanasia - the right to murder a person in a seemingly hopeless condition.