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Originally Posted by slayda
Ah but to which god(s) -- there is the rub and the relativism that is not universal. The morality of your god may be quite different from mine and definitely different from the atheist's god (or whatever is substituted of his god). So morality is relative, even among those who profess to serve the same god.
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Not to take us too far afield....
The God I referred to was the God as the OP cited, which I made sure to specify.
I don't know if this helps but as Francis Schaeffer argues, morality exists
if and only if there's an Infinite Personal God -- note that his specification of "Infinite Personal" is imperative. Lacking a reference point, we have pure moral relativism, but then morality doesn't actually exist at all. For example, if I say murder is moral for me, you have no way to argue against that.
Sadly, I don't think legal electronic editions of Schaeffer's books are out, so you'd have to buy the paperbacks and scan them or download from the "darknet" -- which may or may not be ethical!
-Pie