As we venture into the world of ethics, there are a lot of different answers to the grounding problem for us to explore. One of the oldest and most popular is the divine command theory. But with age comes a long history of questions, too, such as the dilemma presented by Plato known as the Euthyphro Problem.
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In Bible part
For one second I thought it was DEATH NOTE music
Me: 😶😶
you should stop watching anime your EXAMS are coming running at you, j-just get it out of your mind
Im pretty sure that most of what you said (the braids, the colthes…)is based on the old bible and not the new testament with the venue of Jésus, and where God loosened Up most of his rules, prmotting tolerance, because he founded that the most important thing was the human hearts and not their culture, coming from the saying : if someone slaps you, give your other chick and pray for his soul.
The answer to Socrates' question is not difficult. The answer for both is yes. What God commands is right and the actions are commanded by God because they are right. God commands what is right because it is right. God is not a man in the sky. He is not fickle. He is Unchanging. He is Being. He is Reality. The huge misunderstanding of what God truly is, is the crux of so many of these arguments.
As for "what is binding," the answer lies in the Church. I know, not a very complicated position and to many, not a good position at all. But that is the answer. The Fathers and all the saints of the Church have the answers that do not.
In your mind, WHAT is GOD. answers this question. IF yo feel he is created by you, why will you obey him? if he created you. Can you surpass him in the first place?
Maybe God himself is trying to figuring all out.
i do believe humans either make morals or accept the morals of an outside source
For Frank Turek, it's the question that you need a Morality Keeper for their to be an Objective Moral Standard.
You need an incorruptible Moral Standard keeper, in order for their to be an Objective Moral Standard.
Interesting fact, there is more Historical evidence for the Historical figure of Jesus Christ
Dang, why y’all do God dirty like that?
I'm a big fan of the series, but this is by far the most biased episode. For example, he mentions God commanded Abraham to kill his son, but didn't mention he stopped Abraham before he killed him because he was testing him. Another example is he never explains why the verses he mentions are non binding now a days.
"I only read one book, but it's a good book don't you know. I act the way I act because the good book tells me so. If I wanna know how to be good, it's to the good book that I go, because the good book is a book and it is good and it's a book. I know the good book is good because the good book says it's good. I know the good book knows it's good because a really good book would. You wouldn't cook without a cookbook so I think it's understood: You can't be good without the good book because it's good and it's a book."
Tim Minchin, The Good Book.
"figure out morality for ourselves"👍
Thank you
*Warning: opinion alert*:
Ummmm…. I don't see it as God "retracting" the Commandments. The Christian viewpoint is that man is sinful. They just are, because no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. In Christianity, God gave us Jesus to show the way. Even if you consider all 3 Abrahamic religions, it makes no sense that God would retract His commandments, because the belief is that God is good. He just IS. Everything was created out of His mercy. They don't just expire, the way milk does over time.
just my humble opinion 🙂
me after seeing 1:42 :
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(after some period of time)
uh…. no, hank, i totally knew that i wasn't supposed to braid my hair….
Talking about the first horn of the dilemma, we can compare ethical values with the laws of physics and nature. The video asks what we would do if god suddenly changed his commandments to be the opposite and told us to abide by them. Well in contrast I could say; what would we do if, say, the force of gravity suddenly flipped around one day and became a repelling force the pushes us and everything away from the main body of gravity “for example the earth”. Would it even make sense to have any preparations for such an event? No, because we know that the laws of physics have always been consistent enough for us to discard such a possibility completely, and the same applies to ethical values. Once they have been created, they well remain constant and consistent forever making it ok to ultimately follow his commandments in the first place. I’d love to hear a counter argument if anyone has one.
But God is unchanging because he is perfect, so he would never change his perfect morality ✌🏻
All I know is, God would like us all to call bananas ChomChoms
Typical Atheist Secular View. Pitiful really as it sounds intelligent while citing communist such as Plato and Socrates. No surprise from PBS.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10
An argument to God changing the rules is the fact that in the bible it is stated several times to be unchangeable therefore we can assume God will not change those rules
Here is how the dilemma is ended-
1. God by definition IS omnipotent, it is what we mean when we use the term “god.”
2. Because he is omnipotent he is the principle without principle and the source of every other principle, including morality.
3. Being the source of morality, what he decrees is objectively good.
4. Therefore, all his commands are good.
5. Now, because all his commands are good, he will not command that which contradicts what he has already commanded, because that would mean he is subject to change, which means he is acted upon by outside sources, making him imperfect and therefore not omnipotent.
6. The reconciliation of the goodness of the commands of God is the recognition that all his commands resolve themselves in a universal good.
7. For example, I tell my son it is wrong to deceive others. But then I tell him to lie about where he will be tomorrow at 5 pm to his mother. Seems hypocritical and inconsistent. Except that we are having a surprise party for his mother. Did I fail my son as a father in terms of moral consistency? Let us ask something analogous to God- If he is God and the source of Good and all his acts are good, then any contradiction we see is merely apparent and will resolve itself in a universal good.
I like this video. It is worth mentioning, though, that the handling of those biblical references made them seem ridiculous. Context is king. Some mild investigation into theology reduces the absurdity.
Of course reasonable people could still disagree, but wrenching excerpts from ancient texts, heck even some modern ones, can make sensible things seem ridiculous.