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To: Zionist Conspirator
Good and evil are rooted in God's nature and decrees. There is no independent morality or ethics based on any other consideration.

An absurd position utterly demolished by Plato's Euthyphro.

7 posted on 07/29/2009 7:44:54 PM PDT by John Locke
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To: John Locke
An absurd position utterly demolished by Plato's Euthyphro.

Which is why the Maccabees fought the Greeks . . . pagan "philosophy."

9 posted on 07/29/2009 7:54:40 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ('Ani hagever ra'ah `ani, beshevet `evrato!)
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To: John Locke
An absurd position utterly demolished by Plato's Euthyphro.

Plato's Euthyphro demolishes nothing.

The two options presented in first premise of the modernized Euthyphro dilemma are intended to be logically exhaustive so that if divine command theory is true then one of the options must be the case.

If the two alternatives presented are not the only alternatives then what is being presented as only two options is a false dilemna. If the first premise is false the argument is invalid.

There is a third alternative.

Euthyphro's Dilemma
Gregory Koukl

Cordially,

12 posted on 07/29/2009 11:20:24 PM PDT by Diamond
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To: John Locke

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


14 posted on 07/30/2009 6:09:37 AM PDT by MarianoApologeticus (Cutting both ways)
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