Plato's Question About God

Plato put forward an objection to the idea that morality is based in the commands of God in his treatise Euthyphro. The argument goes as since the basis for doing what is right depends on God commanding what is right, does the system of what is right supersede God? Is God just the facilitator to what is right to humanity? His commands are the vehicle of truth in service to the truth instead of to God? Or is morality arbitrarily determined by God’s will? This surely is not the case. God is a person, and there is an objective, invariant and coherent standard for truth and morality. Yet some set these two things apart and see them as mutually exclusive. It seems impossible that God who is a person can be also the standard for truth. That when He acts He acts perfectly moral. What He wishes and desires is the standard for truth not just because God wants it to be true, but because it is true. The two are one and the same. In other words, God’s nature is true therefore it is the source of truth. What we often separate since it is hard for us to accept— I think because we project our understandings of personhood on God— is not to be separated. Objective truth and God’s character are one and the same.