Claim. The original value of an entity is not an inherent fixed attribute — it is established through the mutual relationship between the entity’s God-given purpose and a person’s God-given desire to bring out its worth. Value becomes absolute only when this relationship completes a God-centered four position foundation; under fallen conditions, all values remain relative.
Elaboration. Per 4.1. The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value: “the value of an entity intended at its creation is not fixed as an inherent attribute. Rather, it is established through the mutual relationship between the purpose of the entity according to God’s ideal of creation, and people’s original desire to treasure it and bring out its true worth. It finds its true value when it participates as an object partner in a God-centered four position foundation.”
The rose example illustrates: a rose’s original beauty is realized only when “the purpose for which God created the flower and the divinely given human desire to appreciate and bring out its beauty are fulfilled together” (ibid). Without an appreciating subject, beauty stays latent; without God-aligned desire, what gets brought out is something else entirely.
The standard-setter: “Since its original value is determined when it participates in a four position foundation, and since the center of this four position foundation is God, it is God who sets the standard… Since God is absolute, the original value… must also be absolute” (ibid).
The fallen-condition note: “Until now, no object partner’s value could become absolute; it has remained relative because its relationship with fallen people was not based on God’s ideal of creation but was based on satanic purpose and desire.” This is DP’s account of why all worldly value-judgments remain unstable under fallen history.
See also. dp-good-and-evil-defined-by-four-position-alignment