(November 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: What if the "don't kill" injunction conflicted with biblical principles? Would you still stand by your position of "submit[ting] to authority unless it conflicts with Biblical truth"?
You're talking about the euthyphro dilemma.
The Judeo-Christian version would be something like:
"Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?"
(taken from wikipedia)
It's a false dilema though. There is a third option.
God is the perfect moral being and his commands extend from or are in line with his nature (which is morally perfect and good).
There wouldn't be a moral law from God that commanded as a normative principle to murder.
