Why Do We Need God for Morality?
Brett Kunkle of Stand to Reason explains why our obligation to follow a moral code can only exist with God.
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The authority is not the reason you would get up and leave, the reason for the command is why you would get up and leave which only means morals are moral before God speaks upon them, this makes him the middle man and not needed.
Why do people cherry pick through their holy books? ( Everyone does it so just be grown enough to admit it ) the reason is morals are moral on their own independent of a god, there is reason people decide not to stone their children to death or burn witches, or kill women who was raped but didn't scream for help, the bible tells you to do these things but you ignore it because despite wether God said it or not you your self know these aren't the right things to do
The very example that Kunkle uses here betrays his conclusion. The difference maker between the command to "get up and leave now" is the apparent arbitrariness and therefore the irrationality of the command based upon the context. The fortune cookie is most likely not custom tailored to you, the random customer seems to have no compelling motivation for her suggestion, but the officer, and only the officer, provided a sound reason for obeying the command, namely that she was about to "bust the owner of the restaurant". The examples Kunkle provides are at least as plausibly linked to reason as to authority, thus failing to establish the necessity of God for morality.