Does Morality Depend on God for Its Legitimacy? Specifically, Is

question 15

Multiple Choice

Does morality depend on God for its legitimacy? Specifically, is an action right (or wrong) because God commands that it be so-or is it right (or wrong) independent of God's commands, so that God must in fact answer to the moral law? The view that morality does depend on God is known as the "divine command theory," and Rachels critiques it in this reading. He argues that this conception of morality is false and that neither the theist nor the nontheist should accept it.
-According to Rachels, if God commands us to do certain things because they are right (independent of God's will) , then

• A) God's commands are not arbitrary, and the idea of the goodness of God is preserved.
• B) God's commands are immoral.
• C) the divine command theory is true.
• D) God's commands are not arbitrary, but the idea of the goodness of God is rendered meaningless.

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