I'm more of the social contract type, or at least some form of social contract theory. Human rights don't come from the Creator because in nature... our only rights are to eat or be eaten. Humans have an inherent right to take away the rights of others, up to and including life... provided they have the strength or cunning to do so.
The notion of human rights comes about as an encoding of just what we need to expect from one another, especially as population grows beyond tribal sustainability, if we are going to enjoy peace, prosperity, and any amount of real freedom for the population (for total individualist anarchy is more oppressive than even fascism could ever dream of, at least if you're not the strong/cunning one).
We agree to not do certain things in order to enjoy the freedom of those things happening to us. This can be the usual thing that people expect: I will not kill you to ensure no one will kill me... or the more abstract: I will attempt to conserve resources as not to screw everyone over, including myself.
All cultures have the moral basic that amounts to the Golden Rule as that is the most intuitive.
What becomes challenging is when societies outgrow tribalism. Because humans have a tendency to apply the golden rule only to insiders. The state and other such institutions exist to minimize the double standard as an extension of the social contract.

God made a world in which life must destroy life to continue living.
Then he put humans into it, creatures that are intelligent and socially inclined and thus find the ways of God's overall creation immoral (yet somehow they manage to twist this the other way around in their need to kiss up to the Creator).
Human ingenuity and empathy is what creates harmony and freeedom in spite of the Creator's work.

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The Tall Man, Phantasm III