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    Therefore, resemblance to God is at most a derivative mar... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Resemblance to God is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a finite creature's goodness.

    Therefore, resemblance to God is at most a derivative marker of goodness, not a necessary condition that does genuine explanatory work.

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    • 1.Goodness in humans (courage, compassion) is intelligible without reference to divine properties, suggesting resemblance plays no explanatory role.
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    • 2.If resemblance to God were necessary for goodness, all goodness would require theological commitment, yet moral agreement spans atheists and theists.
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    • 3.Derivative markers (like thermometer readings) track but don't explain phenomena, fitting how resemblance to God relates to actual moral properties.
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    • 1.If God necessarily exemplifies all perfections, then resembling God is constitutive of goodness, not merely derivative to it.
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    • 2.Moral convergence across worldviews could reflect convergent discovery of objective truths grounded in divine nature, not independence from it.
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    • 3.Calling resemblance 'derivative' requires prior independent account of goodness; theists deny such accounts are available without theological foundation.
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