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    It is not the case that What God wills is right not because God was bound to will it, but because God's willing it makes it right

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    • 1.As Plato's Euthyphro establishes, if rightness is constituted solely by divine will, then moral goodness becomes arbitrary rather than a genuine property God possesses.
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    • 2.Classical theists from Aquinas onward hold that God's nature is identical with Goodness itself, meaning God's will is constrained by what God essentially is.
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    • 3.A God whose will alone constitutes rightness cannot be praised as genuinely good, since 'good' would mean only 'whatever God happens to will' — rendering divine praise empty.
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    • 1.If God's willing X makes X right, then God could will gratuitous cruelty, and it would be right — which contradicts our most secure moral intuitions.
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    • 2.A divine command theory that licenses any possible divine act, including monstrous ones, undermines the very moral framework it claims to ground.
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    • 1.God is not obligated or bound to will any particular thing
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    • 2.Whatever God wills takes place as right by virtue of God's willing it
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