Are there something else in our mind makes us know that divine commands are moral? If we have it, we don’t need divine commands, as our hearts know what to do. — Rystiya
God is defined as omnibenevolent and so whatever he commands will be moral, don't you think? — TheMadFool
Yes indeed. If Mummy loves me and Mummy knows best, then I should do what Mummy says. But 'does She?', is rather the question here. Mummy is not defined by me. Mummy might be an uncaring and cruel alcoholic paedophile. — unenlightened
You think Zeus is benevolent? — unenlightened
And what about the God of the Flood, of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the ejection from the garden of Eden? What about the God who created the Guinea worm and corona virus? Is that god ommni-benevolent? No, at the least it is not a contradiction that god is not benevolent. — unenlightened
Are there something else in our mind makes us know that divine commands are moral? — Rystiya
However, god is omnibenevolent and so his commands will always be moral. To think otherwise would be a contradiction: — TheMadFool
you don't second-guess God, that's not how divine command works. All you need to know is that you must accept God's authority. — SophistiCat
was — unenlightened
What you cannot say is that it is a contradiction that the Creator is not omni-benevolent. Well you can, but it's not true. — unenlightened
if god is omnibenevolent and all that is good, and his moral commands are also defined as good, then his commands would be: "God commands god." — Aleph Numbers
God says 'don't fuck your neighbour's wife', or whatever... what's the difficulty?
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