RE: God and Morality: Separate Issues
January 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2011 at 2:10 pm by Stempy.)
(January 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Option 3: God is morality"God is morality"...I've never heard anyone make that statement before. What I have heard presented is this:
This touchy-feeley explanation is often used by apologists when they're presented with the first two options. This argument can be dismissed as a tautology. The apologist is presenting a definition of morality and then using that definition to prove that the definition is true. This is classic circular reasoning. "We know that God is good because God is good".
Option 4: Moral terms are grounded in the nature of God. They are grounded in the sense that goodness is one of God's properties, in exactly the same way that charge and mass are properties of fundamental particles. If fundamental particles do not exist, there is no such thing as charge and mass. In the same way (on this view), if God does not exist, there is no such thing as goodness.
