What God commands is good. The error of modern age is believing that God commands what is good. Good exists only with God. The latter way of thinking posits that good exists outside God; it assumes that man can determine what is and is not good, and thus, exists on a plane equal to God.
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So, stay with me here, are you suggesting that humans are incapable of knowing "true good" from "true evil" and therefore must simply follow whatever their gods tell them on blind-faith?
And if that's the case (I am willing to accept that premise) how do humans know the will of the gods?
How do you and I know what the gods want us to do, actually do, in the real-world, today?
If a human claims to be religious, then his religious institution, as ordained and founded by his god (whatever that god may be) informs him. If, on the other hand, man claims to know amd determine for himself "good" and "evil," then what need is there for the superfluous variable known as "god?" There are only the atheists, the truly religious, and the superfluous morons that can't decide.
It sounds like you're proposing only two options.
Either decide for yourself, or trust the word of another human.