Within the excerpt, Ivan Fyodorovitch discusses a few aspects of what I believe to be the divine command theory. In the divine command theory, “mortal truths are determined solely by God. What makes an action required, wrong, or permissible is determined by (and only by) God’s commands regarding that action.” Everything that is deemed “wrong,” is forbidden by God. Everything that is “right,” is required by God. I do believe Ivan touches briefly on the divine command theory. “Ivan Fyodorovitch added in parenthesis that the whole natural law lies in that faith, and that if you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.” In this quote