Robert Adam's 'Modified Divine Command Theory'

The arbitrariness problem

• If something is good because God wills it is good, then can God will to be good something that we may consider evil?
• Frankena: 'If God were to order the exact opposite of what we generally take him to have ordered, or of what we take to be right, then, by the hypothesis in question, this is what we ought to do' 
• If God commands us to do something, even if we generally consider it to be evil, then we should do it anyway because God has commanded us to do it, so it must be good
• Some have argued that this…