A divine command approach has been widely presupposed as the natural
moral expression of piety. Most plausible is the view that moral
duties, right wrongs and other aspects of moral obligations are some
way logically derived from God's command. Value judgments (judgments
as to what is good, desirable, worthwhile etc.) are more appropriately
tied to divine approval rather than command.
The divinity was always the most effective motive for leading a good
life. People lead a moral life mainly due to two things; first and
the perfect one is that they preserved a moral order because of the
love of God. The second and the not so perfect one is that they
pre4served a moral order due to their fear of God. What ever be the
reason the sense of God has helped the humanity to keep a high
morality in this world.
But we also come across instances where morality suffered due to
divinity for example in the Hebrew Bible we come across a God who
utterly destroys the adversaries of the Israelites. There is no doubt
that the action of the Israelites under the command of Yahweh is an
action much below the high ethical norms. The slaughtering of the
innocents in the OT is in direct conflict with the religion taught by
Jesus in NT. In Islam we come across a God who keeps the people as
his salves, when we consider the slavery of any kind as an immoral
one.
If we analysis the world history we understand that most of the wars
were fought in the name of God. Terrorism, religious fanaticism
etc., are all perverted forms of love towards God, because they all
try to create a good and moral society by the wrong means.
So we can conclude that the sense of divine is a double edged sword.
It is at the same time the motive for keeping a right moral order and
also an immoral society. By the right interpretation of God's word
will help to build up a just and morals world and the wrong
interpretation of the same will bring only misery and evil to the
world.
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