if God exists then we have a sound foundation for objective moral values and duties first theism provides a sound foundation for objective moral values moral values have to do with what is good or evil on The theistic View objective moral values are grounded in God as St anel saw God is by definition the greatest conceivable being and therefore the highest good indeed he is not merely perfectly good he is the Locust and Paradigm of moral value God's Own holy and loving nature provides the absolute standard against which all actions are measured he is by nature
loving generous faithful kind and so forth thus if God exists objective moral values exist wholly independent of human beings second theism provides a sound foundation for objective moral duties on a theistic view objective moral Duties are constituted by God's commands God's moral nature is expressed in relation to us in the form of divine Commandments which constitute our moral duties or obligations far from being arbitrary God's Commandments must be consistent with his holy and loving nature our duties then are constituted by God's Commandments and these in turn reflect his essential character in the judeo-christian tradition the
whole moral duty of man can be summed up in the two great Commandments first you shall love the Lord your God with all your strength and with all your soul and with all your heart and with all your mind and second you shall love your neighbor as yourself on this Foundation we can affirm the objective rightness of Love generosity self-sacrifice and equality and condemn as objectively wrong selfishness hatred abuse discrimination and oppression in summary then theism has the resources for a sound foundation for Morality it grounds both objective moral values and objective moral duties and
hence I think it's evident that if God exists we have a sound foundation for objective moral values and duties
