The Moral Argument for God

[henryp]

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.

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.

I feel like you read the first paragraph, but not the second one.  Or maybe my terrible example just doesn't work, and works even less for people who don't play a specific video games, and I'm a dummy for doing an awful job communicating a point.

A field goal is worth 3 points is a fact in an american football game. The league, however, could change field goals to be worth 4 points.  Then a field goal being worth 4 points would be a fact.

If you control the laws of the universe, as God theoretically would if He existed, I think what He sets as the rules would be facts.  We couldn't say "gravity is just God's opinion" for example.