Over at the STR Place blog, we've been posting skeptical challenges to Christianity every Tuesday. This week, we posted the following challenge:
Why does God say something is good? There are only two possibilities. First, it could be that a thing (or an action) is good just because God says it is. In other words, He declares something to be good, and therefore it’s good, and we should do it. He could have just as easily declared it to be bad, and then it wouldn’t be “right” for us to do it. But if it’s arbitrary, it’s not really good, is it?
The second possibility is that God knows that a thing actually is good, so He says it’s good. But if that’s the case, then God is using another standard by which He can recognize what “good” is. That would mean there’s a standard above God, meaning there’s something greater than God that He has to conform to in order to be good.
Which do you choose?
Philosophers refer to this as the "Euthyphro Dilemma" and it's a direct challenge to God as the grounding of morality. Here's my answer to the challenge:
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The editor seems to have a highly peculiar view about what "crosses the line" of the comment policy--as has been noticed before and by others (see the commentary under Kyle Strobel's post "The Idolatry of Evangelism"). And, by the way, I fill in my email information with every post.
When I posted some comments to reveal
Mr.Kunkle's quote mining of Bertrand Russell
He deleted the entire post and published it again with a new title and without comments.
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If you have crossed the Terms and Policy than it's ok to accept the deletion of your comment. But re posting it with another title.. It's kinda weird..
He declares something to be good, and therefore it’s good, and we should do it. He could have just as easily declared it to be bad, http://www.geschenke-versandhaus.de and then it wouldn’t be “right” for us to do it. But if it’s arbitrary, it’s not really good, is it?
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