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Is God Necessary for Morality?

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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What Makes Moral Obligations Obligatory?

If god exists and is good, then if you ask him why he forbade us from doing these things, i bet he'd cite exactly the same reasons. There's something objectively true about such actions that explains why god forbade them. Doctor craig can't see that anyone would have any reason to behave in the ways we call moral if they had fear of eternal damnation nor any hope of eternal reward. I find this section really bizarre. If you believed you were going to be punished in some after life for things you did in this one, that would structure your incentives. That doesn’t give you a moral reason to do what he wants, only a self interested one.

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