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What are the moral implications of God’s existence? Please explain your answer. What impact does God not existing have on morality?

Aristotle said for something to be good it must lead to the ultimate good and the ultimate good is God. Without God there is no morality. There is no ultimate good to direct our life towards, giving us no right or wrong. Life is pointless.

Please explain the Euthyphro Dilemma. Is something good because God wills it or does God will it because it is good?

God is goodness, he doesn’t will it he IS the good.

Did God create evil? Please explain your answer.

No because God is goodness, and goodness is existence. That makes evil nonexistence. God doesn’t create evil, evil is the separation from God or absence of goodness.

What is conscience?

The internal moral guide. Formed by natural law.

How do cultures that initially appear to contradict Natural Law (i.e., the inuits) actually support the idea of Natural Law?

They see life as good so they are trying to preserve resources to protect the young and their tribe.

Please explain the following quote from St. Augustine: “You were more inward to me than my most inward part...”

Inward = close God knows you better than you know yourself and is closer to you than you are to yourself. He knows what is best for you.

What do the Ten Commandments have to do with forming our conscience?

• They make the natural law (the thing that properly structures our conscience) obvious to us and easier to undersand.