Many believe in the power of a higher being, and there are numerous beliefs as to whom or what that presence is. Some people do not believe in any kind of god at all, but that this whole world is thrown together by sheer chance. However, the majority of humans throughout history have believed there is some type of supernatural entity. The question must then be asked: Which of these beliefs systems is true? The answer to this query is found within a little sect of a religion started roughly two-thousand years ago, and because of what the man who led this group of radicals did, people can now approach God.

To begin this trek to the answer, the first hurdle that must be overcome is the question of whether there truly is any god. An atheist point of view is quite frankly “no”, because he sees the world as thrown together by sheer chance. One such apostate was a writer by the name of C.S. Lewis, but unlike many people these days; he actually searched for the truth. What he found was that it is impossible to deny the presence of a supreme being, and that our life here is not merely founded upon an accident. The first step to find out the truth is to move away from the never ending debate about the writings in many religious texts, and to start small with acknowledging that there is a certain standard that people must live up to (Lewis 17). Some people have tried to use the argument that each person’s moral beliefs are fine for that person and him alone. However, Lewis states that the problem with this philosophy is how everyone recognizes a certain model (Lewis 17). Murphy writes in an essay on natural law, “All human beings possess a basic knowledge of the principles of the natural law… This knowledge is exhibited in our intrinsic directedness toward the various goods that the natural law enjoins us to pursue” (Murphy). The “natural law” is also a term for a person’s conscience. This idea of a standard everyone inadvertently recognizes is shown whenever someone feels treated unfairly because the person wronged is acknowledging a specific idea that the other person is failing to live up to (Lewis 17). Where did this standard come from then, if there is not one universal ideal? This simple logic easily shows there is an explicit criterion to be met.