The Ultimate Value and the signs of it in ourselves.

[ApeNotKillApe]

What if I really enjoy maiming and butchering the innocent? Does God take credit for the value I place in committing atrocities against innocent people?

I think there is an unclean way to value oneself and noble way. However, you doing so would be in rebellion to God's name entrusted in you. God's Name pushes you one direction but through his power you might rebel against the light and the balance. At the end, all good and evil is from God because he is the author of the system we are in, but from another perspective, evil is more worthy to be attributed to ourselves, while our good is more worthy to be attributed to God.

So God approves of maiming the innocent and is inherently responsible for the value I place in it despite it being contrary to his wishes but not really because even when someone is doing something evil, they're following God's plan, which is perfect and good. Awesome. What a hero. Glad we have this self-negating objective moral standard otherwise I would never know right from wrong.