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Is something true because it is endorsed by God...
Or does God endorse it because it is true?

I guess that I think that God (if he exists) endorses certain things precisely because they are good things or they are true statements / beliefs.

Rather than his endorsment making them so.

So... God couldn't decree that it was morally acceptable to torture an innocent child solely for fun (for example) because that simply is a morally abhorrent thing to do. It is a morally wrong thing to do regardless of whether the Ancients, the Nazis, or God appreciate it as such or not.

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I like this. It's a point of agreement for me. I agree with Sky's discovery about absolute truth vs. relative truth. I believe that there is absolute truth. In my belief system, even God is subject to absolute truth. God is God because He upholds all that is true, and all of the laws, including the laws of nature and the universe. He is bound by those laws in that if He tried to make exceptions, and bend the rules here and there, He would cease to be God. That would be a terrible thing, but we can trust Him to uphold all that is true, and not to waver. We can trust that His judgements will always be just and true.