InfuscoParvulus:
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| I see it as God decided what morals we would have before he created us, and hasn't contradicted himself since. |
But how do we know what he decided was good? You can't say because the morals feel right to us because God could have made anything feel right to us. In order to determine if the morals God selected were good (assuming there is a God), we would have to judge God by a preexisting standard of good that he didn't decide on. Why do we have to do this? Because different incompatible religions say that their God is the standard of good and perfection, but the morals contradict the morals of the other religion. If we say our God is by definition perfect, we have to show why our God is "by definition perfect" as opposed to another God who is "by definition perfect".
How is the God of Islam better or worse because their God is "by definition perfect" as opposed to the God of Christianity whose God is also "by definition perfect?"
And you can't say that the morals of one religion feel more right than the morals of another religion because that just leads back to what I said about our feelings being incapable of identifying what is a "perfect" God.