Can God define a morality without commanding it to be good?

Question

Follow up question to my earlier question:

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Answer 1

If there is a God he gets to define everything.

Answer 2

I think you need some evidence of a god first.

Answer 3

You're referring to Divine Command Theory... That things can only be good or just if a God commands them to be.  The main problem is that if a god commands something to be moral, does that truly make something about it intrinsically good or is it simply an arbitrary assignment?  Can anything truly be 'good' or 'just' if it is only that way because it was assigned that way?  In order for a god to 'define' morality he would either have to command it to be good (which seems to make morality relativistic) or goodness has to be independent of the deity who simply recognizes the goodness/badness and thus doesn't actually define, so much as notice morality.

I don't actually like DCT at all as I don't think it makes logistic sense.  I prefer a world where morality is defined through human empathy where people recognize suffering as bad and all actions should work towards not causing/alleviating suffering in others... sort of like Hume in a way I suppose.