If you believe that we ought to obey God, then you have to be a supernaturalist.
If you believe that we ought to obey God, then you have to be a supernaturalist.
Maybe we ought to obey God because his commands reflect a far better knowledge of an independent moral order. On this non-SN view, stealing isn't bad because God forbids it. Instead, God forbids it because it's already bad.
Obeying God then makes sense -- not because God's will creates the moral order (the SN view) -- but because God has a keener knowledge than we do of what is objectively good or bad.
If you believe that we ought to obey God, then you have to be a supernaturalist.
Maybe we ought to obey God because his commands reflect a far better knowledge of an independent moral order. On this non-SN view, stealing isn't bad because God forbids it. Instead, God forbids it because it's already bad.
Obeying God then makes sense -- not because God's will creates the moral order (the SN view) -- but because God has a keener knowledge than we do of what is objectively good or bad.