On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:30 PM, keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > First I do not believe God would tell me to violate his word. So I really > cannot answer your question.
Well, if you think about it, it's kind of impossible for someone to tell you to violate their word... I mean, if I tell you to do something, that's my word, right? The most I can do is contradict what I said earlier. But that's not what I meant. The specific question is, "If God tells you to do something, does that make it the right thing to do?" > If I heard a voice telling me to kill or rape, I would instinctively know it > was the voice of the devil. So if God would never tell you to kill or rape, is that because they are intrinsically wrong and God knows it? I.e. would they be wrong without God being here to say "do this, don't do that"? Or is God required to *create* rightness and wrongness - that is, if God didn't exist, would murder and rape suddenly become morally neutral or possibly even right? Another way to phrase the same question: Is a right act right because God loves it? Or is it loved by God because it is a right act? Which comes first, God's love for it, or its rightness? -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
