Consider the following question raised by the dialogue: If God loves the good because it is good, then the good exists prior to and apart from God, and God is not the creator of everything (a notion rejected by most monotheists, such as Jews, Christians, and Muslims). Would this make any difference to our moral lives and our duties? Why or why not?

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The Answer is In one sense, it should not. If our moral duty is to do as God commands, and it is usually the case that God commands us to do good, seek good, then it should not matter whether God created it or not, only that he commands us to do it. It seems reasonable that doing good just is moral, for how could doing good be immoral, excluding obvious cases like "too much of a good thing" or where a good leads to something terrible.
If however, one takes this as a reason not to do what God commands, or to reject the existence of God, then the second argument in the preceding paragraph fails, and there must be another reason for doing good. If there is no such reason, then the basic moral notion of doing good seems to lack grounding. What a grounding for morality may be without God is discussed in the Nielsen and Mavrodes readings.

Consider the Following Question Raised by the Dialogue: If God