> a God whose morality was similar to ours wouldn't allow there to be so much suffering in the world.
>> Why not? We do...
Yes, this is a flaw in my second rebuttal. If you believe that God has a concept of morality similar to us and fails to live according to his own concept of morality, then my second rebuttal fails. But if God doesn't live up to his own standards, this leads into a third prong: how does God have a standard of morality that is above himself unless there is a Higher God above him? Any answer to this question is equivalent to a rebuttal to the Moral Argument.
>To counter the other side - if God's morality is different to ours, this is also ok - because God's told us what our part is in upholding God's morality - and in order to be "Good" we just have to follow orders...
You're missing my point. I'm making a rebuttal, not a stand alone argument. The conclusion I draw is not "The problem of pain shows divine command theory theism to be false." The conclusion is "The problem of pain show that divine command theory theists cannot consistently use the moral argument." You response is an easy answer to the first, but not to the second.
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Date: 2009-08-29 05:09 pm (UTC)> a God whose morality was similar to ours wouldn't allow there to be so much suffering in the world.
>> Why not? We do...
Yes, this is a flaw in my second rebuttal. If you believe that God has a concept of morality similar to us and fails to live according to his own concept of morality, then my second rebuttal fails. But if God doesn't live up to his own standards, this leads into a third prong: how does God have a standard of morality that is above himself unless there is a Higher God above him? Any answer to this question is equivalent to a rebuttal to the Moral Argument.
>To counter the other side - if God's morality is different to ours, this is also ok - because God's told us what our part is in upholding God's morality - and in order to be "Good" we just have to follow orders...
You're missing my point. I'm making a rebuttal, not a stand alone argument. The conclusion I draw is not "The problem of pain shows divine command theory theism to be false." The conclusion is "The problem of pain show that divine command theory theists cannot consistently use the moral argument." You response is an easy answer to the first, but not to the second.