Cross Examined

Upon my search,
I have seen men striving to do good.
And I found that strife has created great harm.
Men would rather look inside themselves
Where they find the utmost assurance that they are good.
Then they destroy trying to conform mankind to the model of goodness
In themselves.

It is simple.
Mozi proved the Golden Rule was logical.
Yet even he had gotten things wrong.
Jesus--- His moral teachings were perfect.
No other genius in history can say the same.
He told men to call Him teacher, and nobody else.

I saw an evangelist struggle to understand
An Atheist’s remarks that good and truth are self evident.
These same individuals want to prove the Earth is young
And that we had not evolved from apes.
My doctrine is that we are only apes---
Yet too many have been into the void and seen what I have seen.
The women who found the idol of Shiva was thrown back into this world
Cruelly.

Christians simply do not get it.
So many of us have been indoctrinated in the existentialist claim
Of their being no objective value.
I speak as an atheist today, when I was an atheist,
That I could see there was objective truth.
I could see there was good and evil.
I ought not concern Christians to disenfranchise faith in it
As the result of this ministry of nihilism has spun the world
Into chaos.
We preach the Gospel.
The Law must be self evident
Or else there can be no God.
And the law is simple:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Love others, as you love yourself.”
The first commandment is fulfilled in the second.

The bitterness---as I read my atheist character---
Of this nihilism is that it's taught as an alternative to Christ.
When, Christ can only be God if His law is self evident
And the words He spoke independent of Him.
That even if He did not exist, these laws were still true.

And when we see the laws He preached were true
We find ourselves approached by the solitary wisdom
That an abjectly poor Carpenter’s bastard had found truth;
And not only found it, but all of it.
That this man, who couldn’t possibly have been educated,
Discovered something that many of the great sages had only come by
Through much learning.

And when you find this,
The case begins to be ever more strong that Jesus is the Christ.
Men are not capable of finding truths so potent on their own;
Without help from others.
Men are not creative enough.
Not even I.

And I find myself at the first piece of wisdom I’d ever found.
Truth is self evident.
Good is self evident.
Nietzsche and the Existentialists were wrong.
It takes a fool hardened by philosophy to not see it
That there is meaning to life;
And that meaning is to love others in the way we ourselves want to be loved.
And that solitary truth is why Christ became our teacher.
And how we know He is God Come in the Flesh
Is that He taught truths which were self evident
And persuasive enough to convince any rational mind.
And if we’re honest,
The preacher talked about this dirty old rapist---
The boogie man of the modern age, 
Is the Hitleresque rapist which all know is wrong.
For the only two morals today are do not kill and do not rape.
Yet, the greater morals are found inherently true
By the discord we experience today---
And knowing that we are imperfect
It becomes clear that we need a savior.
Not because meaning must be found in the Bible
But because the Bible described self evident meaning
Which can be found independent of it or God.