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    Challenges→The Euthyphro dilemma does not defeat Adams' Divine Command Theory

    The second horn—goodness is whatever God's nature is—entails that God's nature is good by definition, making divine goodness trivially true and morally vacuous.

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    • 1.If goodness is defined as 'whatever God's nature is,' then 'God is good' becomes a tautology like 'bachelors are unmarried.'
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    • 2.Tautologies are conceptually true but informationally empty—they tell us nothing about God's actual moral character or actions.
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    • 3.Moral claims should have substantive content; calling God 'good' by mere definitional fiat strips the term of evaluative force.
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    • 1.Mathematical truths are tautological yet substantive—they reveal real structural facts about reality, not mere linguistic conventions.
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    • 2.God's nature being the standard of goodness doesn't make 'God is good' vacuous any more than 'the meter bar is one meter long' is vacuous.
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    • 3.The claim entails that actions contrary to God's nature are genuinely wrong, giving moral content despite the tautological form.
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