Full Idea
We have good reason for resisting the suggestion that God has any duties or obligations. …What can oblige God in relation to his creatures? Could there be a law saying God has such obligations? Where does such a law come from?
Gist of Idea
How could God have obligations? What law could possibly impose them?
Source
Brian Davies (Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion [1982], 3 'Goodness')
A Reaction
Plato can answer this question. Greek gods are not so supreme that nothing could put them under an obligation, but 'God' has to be supreme in every respect.
Book Reference
Davies,Brian: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion' [OUP 1993], p.50