Divine Command ethics

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• One possible relationship between religion and morality is that they are dependent on each other. This means that they cannot be conceived as existing without one another. A large part of religion is its moral techings, but more importantly, morality could not exist without religion and a God.
• This dependence is made clear in divine command ethics. This is the ethical theory that moral agents should follow whatever God commands. We can know what are God coomands through Scriptures, such as the Ten Commandments in the bible and the church. Divine command ethics is a objective and aboslutist theory because God's commands are absolute and objectively true therefore they should always be followed.
• Divine command ethics: