Is Moral Choice Immoral?

According to theory, to do what 'god' wants us to do is to be "righteous" and to be "holy".

And to be "righteous" and "holy" means that you're doing what 'god' wants. But, is to be righteous and holy purely arbitrary, or is it supposed to have some sort of non-arbitrary nature about it as well? Is to be righteous and holy completely meaningless outside the context of believing that there is a 'god' with wishes and druthers? Does "righteous and holy" mean absolutely nothing other than "this is what 'god' likes you to do"?

Consider, 'god' wants you to do good. But, is it good because 'god' wants you to do it (holy, righteous and purely arbitrary), or does 'god' want you to do it because it is implicitly good?

If there is a discernible "good", independent of 'god'-druthers, then one doesn't need 'god' to tell us that it's good or not good. So, we can be good independent of 'god'-druthers. In fact, in order for us to say that "god is good", we must first know what good *IS*, or such an assertion would be meaningless, and it's rather unfair and tenuous to suggest that I'm not qualified to say that 'god' is bad, if I AM qualified to say that 'god' is good. Surely, one qualification implies the other.

Consider Adam and Eve in the bible's Genesis 3. Adam and Eve chose to partake of the forbidden fruit. Their eyes were opened unto the truth, and they became aware of the knowledge of good and evil.

Morality requires moral choice, and moral choice requires knowledge of good and evil.

Adam and Eve were INCAPABLE of being moral beings before they partook of the forbidden fruit. Yet, we are often told that this action was "unrighteous" and "unholy" and therefore bad, and that which is bad is immoral.

1. How can becoming capable of being moral beings be immoral?

2. Which has something to hide with "eyes closed", the good or the evil? How can having one's eyes opened and being capable of seeing what is good and what is not good an "evil" and immoral thing?

3. Perhaps no one would argue that a trained rat or circus animal is a moral creature, just because it has been trained with reward and punishment to do what it's master wants. Surely, morality means more than mindlessly performing an action, like not marrying your sister and not eating pork and keeping the Sabbath.

In fact, this very realization ITSELF was Adam and Eve's "FALL FROM GRACE".

YOU ARE CURRENTLY EATING THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, for this blog post makes clear, that, even within Christian theory, you, as one of "the fallen", can independently comprehend what is good and what is bad. We KNOW that torturing a five-year old girl simply for "enjoyment purposes" is evil, even if we don't have a booming voice from the sky telling us so.

We DON'T NEED 'GODS' to tell us what is good and what is bad.

It is humankind, not 'gods' who decide whether Eden was cage, or chrysalis.