Is God good?

I fail to see how God can be described this way if one actually believes that they have communion with Him.IMHO the only reason God allowed evil to exist was as a possibility...not an actuality. It makes no sense for evil to exist. Granted, humans assigned the value evil but even humans don't normally wish evil on their brethren. If humans have the capacity to avoid evil and seek good, surely God is no worse at it than we are. I also disagree with the yin/yang dualism assigned to GOD. Strictly my belief, however.

You should question why some humans cant imagine an intelligence greater than our own feeble species and why its silly to imagine such an authority?

ok, assuming that humans are responsible for their own authority...I suppose we are responsible for goodness also. But its nice to imagine a Divine Dad that can spellcheck my decisions and inspire me to greater heights.

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1 John 1:5 writes:

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This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

Isaiah 45:7 writes:

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I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.

So if you are to believe that the bible is 100% acurate than it is impossible for it to be correct in saying that there is no darkness in God while at the same time saying that God is responsible for darkness. It is by it's own proclomation contradictory and by your logic, in error.

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Why is it a contradiction to say that God can create or allow something to exist that He is not?

Creating the option of darkness merely allows free will. If I had a kid, for example, and commanded them to stay inside and never go outside, the free will of the child would only be established if there was an outside. If reality consisted only of "inside" or of "light" there would be no outside...no darkness...with which to give free will a viable alternative. Thats my take on it, in a nutshell.

I believe in communion. His Spirit being allowed to commune with our spirit. Any decisions are entirely ours...as the responsible party...but His influence helps to shape our decision. My point is that we cant make an informed (or complete) decision without knowing His heart/His conscience. This is what it means to have the mind of Christ.

OK. Are you saying that the whole idea of "His Spirit" seems ridiculous to you?

Thing is, we dont limit our God soley to a described character, as if He were merely a character in a book. We tend to have an idea of what type of character He is....of course we could be wrong.

Perhaps our right of final choice ends up being a demand for final choice on our part....and perhaps the reason for conflict between Creator and created stems from the reluctance of the created to give in.

This seems pantheistic to me....but then again, describing God is not easy.....even though you make Him up, He conforms His reality to our imaginations....

But in my belief there IS one God...and I think you and I differ on our ability as humans to relate to Him/Her/It and whether it is even important to do so. Your beliefs are, in my opinion, more Jewish based than Christian....although you have stated God to be good, you have also declared that She is complete, whereas I differentiate an evil spirit from being in communion with God...I maintain that light and darkness are not one unity regardless who created them

yes, and he was human....but we would disagree on whether God (GOD) intended to use him to form communion with humanity or not.....you would ask what this concept even means...I would maintain that we can choose to associate with light or darkness, and that we need Jesus to be alive in order to have the communion...without that concept we are but wandering ants with no hope of communication/communion with God.

In the context of my belief, God started with you...you didnt start with God. Just sayin...

For believers and unbelievers alike, by trying our best to live out our destiny...our human potential is all we can do. If we believe that we are doing it for humanity, great! If we believe that we are doing it for ourselves, it is our cultural expectation.And if we believe, as I do, that it is an inner spark that God gave me and that I give back, the answer is unimportant. The effort itself is everything...it is life!

I tend to agree with you to an extent, Faith. Crash is a hardcore atheist who claims that he honestly would like to see some evidence of God, yet he has burned every bridge that would carry him there. Perhaps defending critical thinking and intelligence is a good thing culturally, assuming that science in general was never supernaturally deluded.Jar asks for evidence because his idea of God is that God is beyond human communication and that we were given logic, reason, and reality and a charge to try and do our best. I cant argue with him totally, though I think he wont entertain the idea of communication through prayer, apart from achieving group cohesion. He is convinced that God is beyond us and that Christianity is about doing the right thing without needing the teacher in the room.I wouldn't let either of them get me mad, however. Buz never gave up at EvC. Why should you or I?