The dilemma in the Euthyphro is historically significant in particular for monotheistic religions that hold God to be the creator of absolutely everything.

If such, then God is the creator of values, and can will anything as the Good. However, since anything God wills is the Good, it makes no sense to praise God for his goodness, for whatever he thinks, wants, or does is simply good by definition, regardless of what it is.

This idea is recognised as the Divine Command Theory. However, if God recognises the Good and adheres to this standard, then we can praise him for being good.

But this no longer makes him the creator of everything as the standards of the Good are above and beyond him. The Quran states, “God does what he wishes” (Surah 3:40) which aligns Islam with the divine command theory.

While Judaism and Christianity try to have it both ways, “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:10) markedly positing the Good as a separate standard to God himself.

Euthyphro siding with popular Greek belief states that the Gods approve of an action because it is pious. He thus sides with the view that the Good is a separate standard to which the Gods adhere to, without realising that he contradicts his own definition of piety. However, Socrates argues that this is only an attribute of piety and still does not say anything about what piety actually is.