Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.

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A dilemma must only have two possible outcomes. Philosopher William Lang Craig did some work on this and argues that a third option exists: "what the alternative is is “God is good because his nature is The Good.” His nature defines or determines what is The Good. So that doesn’t lead to this then further dilemma which he wants to erect that “Is God’s nature good because it creates The Good or because it recognizes The Good?” That question in a sense doesn’t even make sense. Natures don’t create anything or recognize anything. When you are talking about the nature of God you are talking about his essential properties. And the nature of God neither creates nor recognizes things at all so the whole question is just malformed.

Rather what we want to say is that God’s nature is The Good and that this simply determines what goodness is. Therefore, to say “why is God’s nature good?” or “does it create the good or recognize the good?” is to fail to understand the alternative. It is sort of like asking, “Is The Good, good because it creates The Good or because it recognizes The Good?” Well, neither one – The Good is good because it is The Good. It defines what is The Good. It is the standard. It simply makes no sense to ask this further question."

Alright, here's a better question for you: what determination has been made, aside from fiat assertion, that demonstrates that god's nature is good? What referent have you used for god, what metric of goodness have you used, and what definition of "nature" are you using?

See, this is worse than before, because now you're not only pushing the Euthyphro Dilemma back a step, but you're doing it by adding nothing to the conversation at all. You and ol' WLC have no additional evidence to lead to the determination that god's nature is good, nothing has been discovered between first proposing the dilemma and the putative solution, nothing has happened and yet here you are, claiming some discovery that changes the outcome of the dilemma in your favor. You're just making things up!