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Journal: Reflect on the following question? Is Divine Command Morality Ethics necessary and/or sufficient for Christian Ethics?

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II TEXT | PLATO, EUTHYPHRO (c) Criticism – Christians today do not justify their ethics in that way. For Christian God’s word settle ethics. (i) Christianity & the question put to Euthyphro (ii) The dismissal of religious ethics (d) The Divine Command theory of morality: Good because God allows it and bad because God forbids it. Most philosophers dismiss this view. IS CHRISTIAN ETHICS DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS?

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Page 1: Journal: Reflect on the following question? Is Divine Command Morality Ethics necessary and/or sufficient for Christian Ethics?

Journal:Reflect on the following question?

Is Divine Command Morality Ethics necessary and/or sufficient for Christian Ethics?

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Cont.Euthyphro & Socrates

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II TEXT | PLATO, EUTHYPHRO(c) Criticism – Christians today do not justify their ethics in that way. For Christian God’s word settle ethics. (i) Christianity & the question put to Euthyphro (ii) The dismissal of religious ethics (d) The Divine Command theory of morality: Good because God allows it and bad because God forbids it. Most philosophers dismiss this view.

IS CHRISTIAN ETHICS DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS?

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II TEXT | PLATO, EUTHYPHROIs Christian ethics Divine Command ethics?5 |The religious justification of ethics“The assumption that we need God for the ethics” Is there something God cannot do?

So when we looks at ourselves for a standard of right and wrong are we looking at a non-divine standard?

Divine standards or human standards as a false dichotomy?

Do we put religion above morality?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fisH54IFoEw