Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2022 4:48:29 GMT
Chapter 15 - Audacity
Job's friends continue to condemn him for daring to speak against God.
*The Audacity of Natural Law Theory*
By defying divine command theory (not assuming everything God does is good), proponents of the natural law theory of natural goodness now have a standard to judge God with. This rubs theists the wrong way because of their innate sense of respect for authority. Evolutionarily, it makes sense to obey authorities even if they are wrong, because the audacity to speak against authority can lead to tyrannical order via a public executions and punishments, or nihilistic chaos in the discoordination or revolution of the masses. It seems like our evolutionary tendency to respect authority got abstracted to the metaphysical realm where the religious don't dare to judge the ultimate authority, God himself. But by failing to judge God when he departs from the definition of goodness, one fails to be truly committed to goodness.
NEXT: Chapter 16 - Apathy
Job's friends continue to condemn him for daring to speak against God.
*The Audacity of Natural Law Theory*
By defying divine command theory (not assuming everything God does is good), proponents of the natural law theory of natural goodness now have a standard to judge God with. This rubs theists the wrong way because of their innate sense of respect for authority. Evolutionarily, it makes sense to obey authorities even if they are wrong, because the audacity to speak against authority can lead to tyrannical order via a public executions and punishments, or nihilistic chaos in the discoordination or revolution of the masses. It seems like our evolutionary tendency to respect authority got abstracted to the metaphysical realm where the religious don't dare to judge the ultimate authority, God himself. But by failing to judge God when he departs from the definition of goodness, one fails to be truly committed to goodness.
NEXT: Chapter 16 - Apathy
