RE: A simple question for theists
April 3, 2017 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2017 at 12:58 pm by SteveII.)
(April 3, 2017 at 11:55 am)Faith No More Wrote:(April 3, 2017 at 11:13 am)SteveII Wrote: I am talking about our obligations to obey a command. We have one. #6. I think Divine Command Theory is correct.
I'm confused. Are you saying that god's commands have always been moral but our obligations to obey them have changed?
No, we are to obey. We have a commandment that says not to murder. We have a question that asks it is okay to murder if God says so. I say, we already have instructions not to murder and God will not contradict it. The same question can be phrased with each of the 10 commandments. If you do, the question "If God said..." become silly. (No other Gods, honor father and mother, adultery, false witness, etc.).
If you are referring to Abraham/Isaac, God commanded him to offer his son to him. We have no idea what was going on on Abraham's head other than he was accustomed to having discussions with angels and God and had tremendous faith in God's promise to form a great nation from Isaac. Here is a thought exercise: what if the month before he had been given a commandment from God that he understood to be for all time: do not kill children? Is it possible that God would then command something contradictory? No, I don't think so.
EDIT: I would like to add that nowhere on the stone tablets a footnote that read: "Unless otherwise commanded"