(June 26, 2017 at 10:19 am)Little Henry Wrote: Also, it is not because God says so. It is not his opinion. Rather they derive from his nature.
The idea that morality can derive from God's nature is philosophical twaddle. The concepts of good and evil are about actions, not about being. A given action is either good or bad. Right or wrong. A person's nature is morally neutral. The idea that a being is essentially good or evil is incoherent. And that applies to God as well. There is no such thing as a being that is "good incarnate." If God has free will, even if he is essentially good, then he has the capacity to do evil. Either that, or you're abusing the notion of free will. So you cannot derive the necessity of God's actions being moral from his nature. If God does not have free will, then he's just an automaton. You can't derive morals from the behavior of an automaton. This idea that morality derives from God's nature is incoherent and unworkable, despite being a popular dodge. You're back to Euthyphro's dilemma, with God's commands being either arbitrary, or based on a standard independent of God. In no case do you have objective morality being derived from God.