On Mar 12, 5:50 pm, sdguy2005 <samrig2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I thought some of you might be interested in reading this
> article that was posted at TheologyOnline.com called, "A Christian
> Answer to Euthyphro's
Dilemma."http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47024
>
> In case you're not familiar with Euthyphro's Dilemma, it's a
> philosophical argument that atheists like to use to claim that
> morality cannot flow from God, because any absolute moral standard is
> either a) arbitarily commanded by God, in which case even murder would
> be OK if He said so, or b) a moral standard external to God would
> exist, which would mean that some being is superior to Him.
>
> This particular answer to the dilemma proves that only the Christian
> deity (a triune god) can objectively know that an absolute moral
> standard exists, because of the consistent, eternal witness within the
> Godhead. In other words, Allah could not know for sure that he was
> good.
>
> Check it out!
The article posted uses an awful lot of words to suggest a simple
idea.
The answer to Euthyphro is really simple - there are no absolute moral
standards.
But to suggest that the Trinity somehow validates some set of
standards that a preacher espouses is foolish in the eyes, not only of
Muslims (and Jews), but also of Christian Unitarians.
There is no need for absolute moral standards. What matters is LOVE
and love cannot be legislated.
That is, and this seems to me to be the real answer to Euthyphro, how
can we possibly extend LOVE into the details of human life in any
other fashion than as what lawyers would call case law (in this case
this is what is moral - in that case perhaps something else holds)?
I see no evidence that this can be done. Certainly there is no
historical evidence that it ever has been done.
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