Moralizing vs. Compassion

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Objective means it's not subject to anyone's opinion. Presumably if God had a different opinion, then "morality" would be different. If God changed his mind, then morality would change. So I can't agree it's objective, it's just far removed and out of our control. (If it made any sense, which it doesn't.)

But if you assume God makes up his mind and then he cannot change it, and then God just stays out of it, then you could describe it as "objective" I suppose, in that it cannot be subject to change.

But I agree, from the lawgivers point of view, "good" can mean something to him. But if no one else is involved in this distinction, then it's arbitrary as far as everyone else is concerned.

I do consider us a peer to God, if there is one, in the sense that we're both self-aware thinking agents. He just happens to have created some stuff with us in it. That doesn't make him better than us, it just makes him more powerful; he has the ability to overrule us at any time. And he is only powerful in relation to us. He might be a prime doofus in his own version of reality.

So obviously in terms of power, we are not his peers unless he decides that we are. There's no reason to assume he's any more intelligent than us, though. He may have just run a computer simulation; that's not hard.