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Author Topic:   God is evil if He has miracles and does not use them.
Straggler
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Message 4 of 390 (487055)
10-27-2008 10:36 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Phat
10-27-2008 10:01 AM


Re: Judging The Judge
To judge God requires that we have at least as much knowledge as He does. Can anyone step forward and be such a Judge?
Does God expect us to judge and even test Him?
If there is an absolute 'good' or an absolute 'bad' then every action, including those undertaken by God, must be judged by that definition.
If however 'good' is just whatever God does then there is no way to ever know what is 'good' unless we claim to know the mind of God at any given time.
Defining God as good regardless of actions throws out any sense of consistent or absolute morality.

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Straggler
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Message 9 of 390 (487072)
10-27-2008 12:05 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Stile
10-27-2008 11:37 AM


Re: So many unfounded and incorrect statements
This is only true if you can show that God cannot have a way to provide more goodness and less evil in the future by allowing some evil to exist today. Good luck.
If a psycopath brutally kills a series of women on the basis that "God told me to do it" should we judge this man evil? Or should we consider the possibility that God really did have a longer term plan where the end might justify the means?

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