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Theme 1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 10 commandments
- - - - God is the origin of goodness so anything He commands becomes good (goodness has a meta-physical foundation)
      - Moral goodness is achieved by complying with God’s commands and disobedience leads to punishment
      - Since God is omnipotent, He cannot be mistaken, so even if His
        commands seem wrong to us there is no logical way they can be
- - - - It is logically impossible for God to command
        cruel actions for their own sake
      - God could command cruel actions for their own sake and, if God commanded it, we would be obliged to obey, it is just that God does not do so
      - It would be against God’s omnibenevolent nature to command cruel actions for their own sake – it is logically possible but is unthinkable for a loving God
    - - It is logically impossible for God to command cruel actions for their own sake: would suggest that God is subject to some external standard of right and wrong
      - God could command cruel actions for their own sake: goes against the Christian understanding of God as omnibenevolent and good. If God could do this, then it would be difficult to say we should always follow His commands and this would undermine DCT