Matt Slick (CARM pres.) put up a very good video recently on "Euthyphro's Dilemma." (Yeah, I'd never heard of it before today either.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-H1PWFgbyg

It goes like this:

"The Euthyphro Dilemma comes from Plato's Euthyphro Dialog which has had various forms over the centuries. Basically, it is the question: Are moral acts willed by God because they are good or are they good because they are willed by God?

"Another way of saying this is: Does God say that things are moral because they are by nature moral, or do they become moral because God declares them to be?

"The dilemma is that if the acts are morally good because they're good by nature then they are independent of God and God would have to answer to these morals and that would not be a good thing because they would be good in and of themselves apart from God to which God must then appeal.

"On the other hand, if something is good because God commands that it's good, then goodness is arbitrary and God could have called murder good and honesty as being not good.

"The Euthyphro Dilemma is actually, in Christianity, a false dichotomy. It proposes only two options when another is possible. The third option is that good is based on God's nature; on his character; on his essence. See, God appeals to nothing other than his own character for the standard of what is good and then reveals to us what that good is.

"It is wrong to lie because God cannot lie (***us 1:2), not because God had to discover lying was wrong or had to arbitrarily declare that it was wrong. Therefore, for the Christian, there is no dilemma since neither position in Euthyphro's Dilemma represents Christian theology."

It could be said that LDSism suffers from Euthyphro's Dilemma as it attempts to make God accountable to "eternal laws of the universe" by which God supposedly rose to the station or status of a God by obedience to laws not created by God himself.

Just another indicator that LDSism attempts to redefine God's nature and character.