How do we know God is "Good"?

How does that make any sense?

Well, a poorly designed car that harms its occupants in ways that were or could have been forseen is not only evil, it means legal culpability for its designers. This has happened a number of times, where the designers of automobiles were held liable for deaths occuring as a result of their design.It's a very well-established legal principle that if you had forknowledge of the commission of a crime or injury to a person and the power or position to intervene, but did not, then you're culpable. Do you deny that God has both the forknowledge of injury and the capacity to intervene?

Woah, wait a minute. That has absolutely nothing to do with it. "Leaving the decision up to us" means dereliction of responsibility.Dereliction of responsibility doesn't eliminate culpability; if anything, it magnifies it.I know that you believe that "God leaves the decision up to us." What I'm telling you is, under basic legal principles, that leaves him open to culpability for our actions. The designer is, of course. He's responsible for what the car does, in this instance. He's not responsible for everything that the car does, of course. If you drive over your grandma in it, he's not responsible, because he could not reasonably forsee where you were going to drive the car, or how you were going to drive.But if you park the car in your garage, and as a result of that situation, the car explodes and kills your entire family, he is responsible, because he could have reasonably been expected to forsee that people park cars in garages.Well, God's a little different. He can forsee everything. That makes him culpable for everything. The legal principles here are very simple, and inescapable.

What, God doesn't explode in our garages?That's your response? "God doesn't do it to us?" That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about all the bad things God created us to do to each other - all the things he's responsible for. That's a related but tangential argument, but yes. If you believe in both free will and predestination, then you don't understand what "free will" and "predestination" mean. They're mutually exclusive terms. If I place two children in a room with a loaded gun, and one of them shoots the other, who's responsible? The child, or me, who had the forsight to predict the shooting and the opportunity to intervene, but did not?Aren't we all God's children?

Except in heaven, right? There's no bad in heaven, right?Do we have free will in heaven? Does God have free will himself, without the capacity to do bad?