Euthyphro Rocksteady

Yo, step into the court, Socrates is on the scene.
Questioning Euthyphro, yeah, the air is getting lean.
Is it pious 'cause the gods love it, an arbitrary whim?
Or do they love it 'cause it's holy? Is the standard above them?
That's the Euthyphro Dilemma, two horns on the head.
Either God's a tyrant, or He's following a thread.
Horn A says it's good just 'cause He gave the decree.
Horn B says there's a law that even God's gotta see.

But it's a false dilemma, there's a third way to go.
Not a law above Him, not a whim from below.
The standard is His nature, eternal and true.
He's not obeying goodness He is goodness, through and
through.

Now Lewis enters in, he's wary of the “Fiend”.
Rejects that “total depravity” where reason is leaned.
He says if God commanded murder, would murder then be
right?
He sides with Socrates to keep the moral light bright.
But then comes Van Til, with a theological smack.
Says Lewis is too pagan, putting God in the back.
If the law is independent, then God's just a peer.
But Frame says goodness is personal, let's make that clear.

But it's a false dilemma, there's a third way to go.
Not a law above Him, not a whim from below.
The standard is His nature, eternal and true.
He's not obeying goodness He is goodness, through and
through.

Look at Mark and Jane, caught in That Hideous Strength.
Escaping from the Macrobes and their twisted length.
The bad guys hate the “Normal,” they want the “objective”
mind.
But Mark finds the “sweet and straight,” leaving “sour and
crooked” behind.
Jane sees the King, and her world gets unmade.
The Tao, the natural law, the price has been paid.
It's not just a rulebook or a cosmic decree.
It's the image of Maleldil that sets the soul free.

But it's a false dilemma, there's a third way to go.
Not a law above Him, not a whim from below.
The standard is His nature, eternal and true.
He's not obeying goodness He is goodness, through and
through.

They're tearing it down, calling God to the stand,
Pointing to the evil and the grief in the land.
If He's the summum bonum, why the shadows and the pain?
They deconstruct the King, saying faith is in vain.
But you can't call it “crooked” without a “straight” to
compare.
The Problem of Evil shows the standard is there.
AND THE STANDARD IS THE ONE WHO NUMBERS
YOUR HAIRS
Goodness isn't gone IT HAS A NAME

So forget the two options, the logic was flawed.
The moral law isn't something separate from God.
He doesn't obey it, and He doesn't just create it.
He instantiates the good, no need to debate it.
From the “Poison of Subjectivity” to the “Fisher King's”
light.
The God of the Scripture is the standard of right.
Goodness is God, and God is good, all the time.
That's the theological truth in this lyrical rhyme.