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flamingos@feddit.uk 4 days agoYou’ve just moved some words around. God must have reasons for thinking something is good, otherwise goodness would be arbitrary. You can argue that god is only one who can know those reasons/criteria, but I don’t think there’s a good argument that these reasons/criteria can’t exist without them.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Then that’s kind of the whole “where did God come from” argument
flamingos@feddit.uk 4 days ago
No it’s not? I’m arguing that morality must be something separate from God. If the only thing that makes something morally right is that God wills it, then if God ever changes what they will, what is morally right will change.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 days ago
But God cannot change as God is already perfect
flamingos@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I didn’t say if God changed though, I said if God changed what they willed. From some quick Googling (I haven’t actually read the bible), this seems to happen in the bible (Jeremiah 26:13). God can change their actions without changing themself.
2 millennia of Christian philosophy would disagree with you there.