directives are authoritative. Moreover, numerous passages in Scripture emphasize God’s ability and authority to do all things (e.g., Gen 18:14; Phil 3:21), even to the extent that we see God commanding individuals to do things that are typically viewed as immoral, such as the directive to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Divine command advocates also note that Scripture stresses obedience (e.g., Deut 4:37–40; Lev 18:4; Mt 28:20), even without any guarantee that reason can grasp why God imposes particular
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