I don't see how any of this is responsive to the question I asked.
The point was basically that I think you are getting hung up on the terms good and evil and missing the point that the dilemma is about the concepts not the terms. God is either righteous or He is not, He has either always been righteous or He is not righteous at all. For the purposes of Euthyphro's Dilemma the terms 'good' and 'righteous' are interchangeable.
If you suggest that in relation to God the term 'righteous' has no meaning then you have only taken one horn of the dilemma and resolved nothing.
Resting in Him,
Clete
The less religous verson of Genesis:
And thus spake the Lord God ... again, "Adam! You eat one apple and you think you know everything!"
God is either God or God is not. Who are we to define God by our ill gotten knowledge of good and evil, and just where do we get our definition of Righteousness anyway? From a Bible dictionary or a FunkinWagner? And who wrote those? The only way to define anything is in right relationship with our creator, not by comparing apples and oranges.
I'll try this one more time: Understanding good an evil is not the route to knowing God.
We knew God without the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil cost us the intimacy that afforded us the knowledge of God. The knowledge of good and evil brought the sentence of death. We can only know God again through the righteousness (rightness, balance, union, right relatlionship)that comes by grace through faith.
Joh 17:3 - Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Our knowledge of good and evil may or may not help us live in a good way ... but it won't solve the relational problem we have with our creator. Our knowledge of the creator through Jesus Christ solves BOTH.
The weakness in arguing for a knowledge of God based on morality is that God is NOT trying to solve our problem/dilemma with good and evil. God is trying to win us back into relationship; to give us back our life. That solves everything.
Knowing God isn't about knowing who to bash as evil or who to vote for as good. That might make us feel like a righteous people, but it does not get us any closer to God.
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