Analysis Of If God Exists, Is Murder Immoral?

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If God exists, is murder immoral?
Cahn (2103) stated some would argue that murder is immoral because it destroys what he infinitely created. Cahn (2013) proceeds by stating there are discrepancies with this logic. One area of argument would pertain to that God created human lives, but God also created germs, viruses, and disease-carrying rodents that could potentially lead to death. The second area of argument relating to if God exists, is murder immoral pertains to if God created life, isn’t death a sum of this arrangement as well. The third argument relating if murder is immoral pertains to God provided humans with the will to murder by providing us with mental and physical potential. The argument is them, by doing so, are humans carrying out God potential. As humans, if we were to think in regards to Socrates philosophy, we would have to understand what is right and wrong. That potentially what is right would be that humans would allow death to naturally occur. This could also be argued as Cahn stated that because God created humans with the potential to harm or kill one another, that this is a natural occurrence and ultimately murder is moral. It can also be argued that murder is moral depending on the situation. That God may have allowed murder to occur in the event of protection (e.g. defending self, family, war), but not necessarily for sports or an unjust reason. …show more content…

According to Socrates, God commandment to prohibit murder is right because of a moral standard and anything being stated by God should be right (Cahn, 2013). If this logic is correct, than Socrates stated God words would be repetitive since anything God command is right. Based on this logic, the question is repetitive because in the end it’s stating the same thing that murder is wrong because God commands

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