Is something ‘good’ because God wills it to be good, or does God will things because they are ‘good’ on their own?
When Christians make claims to an objective moral standard, are they making a claim that things are good because God has said they are good? Or is the opposite true? Does God issue commands because those things are good in the first place?
This is a classic question/argument that poses a dilemma between two options. The Euthyphro dilemma asks whether something is good because God commands it, or does God commands things because they are good? In other words, is goodness merely the product of the commands of God, or is God aligning his commands to a standard of goodness that exits exterior to God.
- September 4, 2023
