Another interesting clip from William Lane Craig; here is the transcript:
“I think it is completely untenable to maintain that human beings are merely extrinsically valuable in the way that a hammer or a screwdriver is extrinsically valuable. It serves our ends. It is something to be used. If that is true of human beings, then human beings are there to be used by us for our own selfish purposes and that leads immediately to the Holocaust, to slavery, to human trafficking. And I think that that is just morally unconscionable. So the idea that human beings have merely extrinsic value would land us in moral nihilism in a world that is too horrible to be livable.”
The biblical answer to that question is neither! That is his philosophical explanation, which doesn’t help much. If man has any value at all (intrinsic or extrinsic), where did that “value” come from? What is the source and origin of that value? If man came about by evolution, then he is the by-product of a cosmic accident, and has no “value” at all. He came from nowhere, and will disappear again into nothing. According to the Bible, however, man has value because he has been created in the image of God. That is the source and origin of his “value”:
Genesis 9:
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Acts 17:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
That is the correct biblical answer to that question. “Philosophy” doesn’t help!
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