Some religions such as Christianity argue that we do need God to have morals. Christians believe that there is God and that he is creator of the earth and mankind, that he has great power over us so there is a necessity in order to have meanings and morals in our life and that he enlightens us with what is right and what is strongly advised against. Good and bad are undoubtedly there, religious people say, but we can’t see them. This is the case with God. They know that he is there but he is unseen. This suggest that’s that there is a bond between the two and in a Christian’s sight meaning that we need God to know what is morally right. Christians also follow the Ten Commandments. Some of these include 'You shall not murder’, 'You shall not commit adultery.' And ‘You shall not steal.' These are things that most people of the world believe we must go by in order to be moral. However as these happen to be in the bible, they [Christians] can also say that the bible teaches us many things and it clearly marks the good things that we should follow and the bad things we should not. This supports the idea that God makes what is good and bad and without him we wouldn’t have these bases to knowing the right from the wrong as it is believed to be the words of God so He gave us the basic morality. The Christians believe that as god written it in the bible he gave it to us and he wants us to follow those rules as basic morality.
C.S. Lewis – a Christian writer – famously argued that morals need God, that one cannot have universal morals without a divine foundation for those morals. That is, apart from belief in God it is hard to maintain belief in morals.
There are people of different faiths who also believe God is required to be moral. Muslims believe that we do have a God and we need him because he has created us and given us a path to follow and we must obey it. He has told us what is right and wrong and in order to have morals we must stay to it.
There is also mention of this in the Quran which is the word of god and again meaning that God is the one who has given us morals and that we need him to guide us through the world and continue us with the rights and wrongs.
Other people, such as atheists and humanist would argue that we do not need a God to have morals. Atheist believe that there is no god at all yet this does not mean that they do not have moral. Atheist will say that there is much thing as cultures where folks can be both demonstrably moral as well as being non-religious. They would say that there are communities of unreligious people who know what is right or wrong from basic laws and conscience. An big example of this is the country of Denmark which is known for being a non-religious place however the nation is noted for its decency, civility, and good behaviour - and it is known for the absence of crime. This is proof that people can know what’s right and wrong, without having religious beliefs.
If I say that ethics requires God, I do not mean that atheists and agnostics never recognize moral standards. Even the Bible recognizes that they do (Romans 1:32). Indeed some say they believe in absolute principles, though that, of course, is rare. It is contended, rather, that an atheist or agnostic is not able to give an adequate reason for believing in absolute moral principles. And when people accept moral principles without good reason, they hold to them somewhat more loosely than others who accept them upon a rational basis.
Atheist persons could also point out that even religious people can do things that other people find wrong and that God doesn’t make us do things that are bad so why do these people do these?
In conclusion, I believe that God is necessary in order to have morals. I think this because He is the one who created us and gave us a sense of what is morally right and wrong. As a theist I think that God as written words to lead us on the write path and to protect us from evil. However this does not mean that all religious people do right all the time and there might be exceptions. I don’t wish to suggest that people who believe in God are morally perfect. Scripture tells us that isn't so (1 John 1:8-10). The demons are monotheists (James 2:19), but belief in the one God doesn't improve their morals.
Although some may say that without god everything is permitted and he restrains us from doing what we what I think that that is a good thing because we can’t always get what we want! However I can say that perhaps a moral sense is the foundation, not the result, of religious ethics and what sometimes it can depend on your environment or you upbringing in knowing what is right and what is wrong.
