(December 5, 2015 at 12:55 pm)wallym Wrote:Then you're back to a form of relativism. Morality is whatever God says, and God can change what he says on a whim, leading to the same thing theists accuse non-theists of: there's no absolute ground for the "morality" being followed.(December 5, 2015 at 12:34 pm)LostLocke Wrote: Objective.... huh?
Like, when it was OK for parents to have disobedient children stoned to death in the OT? If it's objective, then it's just as 'right' now as it was then. If God changed his mind with the times, then it's not objective.
I'll go to bat for team theist on this one.
If God is an all powerful being, he sets the laws for the universe. The laws of physics would be his will. So if he said the laws of morality were also a thing, they'd be a thing. It'd be God's existence to define.
Re changing his mind: It'd be sort of like releasing a patch in a video game. Now Titans get 6 hammers instead of 5. Maybe the number of hammers could be viewed as subjective from the point of view of the game designer, but for those playing the game, the objective truth was that you got 6 hammers. Now it's that you get 5.
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