(February 22, 2015 at 3:36 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote:(February 21, 2015 at 11:48 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: God is good because he says he is.
Really, how hard can it be?
I checked Catholic answers, and they take your argument even further. God is good (because he said so), and God's moral laws are the only way to know what is good.
Quote:Without God, or something like God that is both authoritative and transcendent, we can only point to society’s definition or morality, or to our own personal code.http://www.catholic.com/blog/todd-aglial...ithout-god
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Believers, on the other hand, have a standard outside themselves: authoritative and unchanging. God and his moral laws—whether positive laws (specific divine commandments) or the natural laws that originate with him—are the best and most reasonable basis for determining what it means to be a good person in the first place.
I love Catholics, because they can make such ridiculous beliefs sounds reasonable.
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Translation: Believers, on the other hand, have abdicated their duty to make moral decisions for themselves.