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Benscoter's logic was added to the "Solution" section. An external reference needs to be added
==Solution==
==Solution==
Thinkers grounded in Christianity and other branches of Monotheism hold that athesism predicated in the Euthyphro Dilemma is the practices of a [[false dichotomy]].
Doug Benscoter has posited that the substance of the argument is "A. X is good because God wills it. B. God wills X because X is good."
:"What the Euthyphro Dilemma requires in order to work properly is the implication that B entails independence of God. A and B should really be rephrased like this:
:A'. X, which is good, is dependent on God.
:B'. X, which is good, is independent of God.
: [W}hy not simply state the dilemma like this? The answer is likely that Euthyphro would have simply affirmed A'. Hence, there is no dilemma for him to consider. What Socrates and his modern counterpart have to defend is that B entails B'."
The answer is that goodness is a necessary aspect of God's nature. It is not apart from God, but he didn't decide it.
==References==
==References==