[MarianoApologeticus]

John Locke,
Is something good because an atheist proclaims it good or does an atheist proclaim something good because it is good?

[John Locke]

Perhaps the most helpful answer is in Genesis Chapter 18. That is where God promises to save the city of Sodom if there are but "fifty righteous" within it.

But how can they be righteous? They don't worship God, they don't obey his commands - they don't even know what his commands are - (except of course for Lot, who was an immigrant). Clearly, then, according to this narrative, one can be "righteous" other than by obeying God, and this premise is agreed to by both God and Abraham. So the Torah here directly contradicts the "Divine Command" theory of ethics.