Topic > Shafer-Landau Analysis - 1144

This is the “view that an act is morally right only because God commands it” (Shafer-Landau 2004, 145). If we assume that God exists and is the creator of all moral laws, then it creates a distorted image of a God who whimsically created the moral laws that guide his teachings by pure chance. As Shafer-Landau mentions: “if an act is right only because God loves or commands it. Now it is God's saying that makes it so, transforming something that was previously morally neutral into something that is good or bad, right or wrong” (Shafer-Landau 2004, 80). An alternative solution provided by Shafer-Landau is to imagine God as a referee of a sports game, simply a follower of rules or laws previously created by a higher power. By creating this new concept of God, we can understand that morality exists in this way for a meaningful and right reason. It should be noted that Shafer-Landau and I believe that scholars should reject the first premise over the second because it would create unstable and unreliable implications about God and our moral laws. Regardless of whether God is the author of his own moral laws, if he existed, morality would still exist