Is God good?

Hello Mike, Well than that to is in error because of the law of non-contradiction. 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.

Good morning Phat, hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Well let's frame it on a human level. If I were to create a bomb and place it in a school. This bomb would only detonate if one of the kids disobeyed a school rule. Would I be evil? Or would the childeren be responsible for their own fate? Since it was they who knowingly broke a rule. How can I create and knowingly do something that is considered evil without being evil myself? In the same way. How can God create darkness or disaster and knowingly inflict it upon others, without being responsible for that which was created?

So to bring this back to my hypothetical. The kids in the school would only have free will once the bomb was in place?
I interjected when Mike the wiz wrote: My take is, that his objection do to the law of non contradiction. (which by the way I think is phooey, many things in life are contradictory) does not bear out when you read what the bible says about God. I believe that if we are going to take the bible passages as a literal interpretation about the actions and will of God. Than it says that God is the source of evil as well. By creating darkness and disaster that would make God responsible and the source of the consequences of that which God created.Is God good, or evil? The truth is I don't know. I don't have any information on which to make such a determination. But if we frame it as: Is God of the bible, reading as 100% accurate good or evil? Then God is evil. God creates evil, God creates disasters and therfore responsible for the consequences from God's creation.

Hello Mike, Care to give an example of how you can do evil without being evil yourself? I disagree. Knowing right from wrong does not mean that there is a God who imbibed you with this knowledge. Right and wrong are a function of your culture and your expeirences. When I was a child I had to be taught what was right and what was wrong. Just as you were. I took these teachings and applied them to my life and make my own moral judgments based upon them. Are they subjective. Of course they are they. That doesn't make them any less valid though. Edited by rueh, : No reason given.

Hello Stile. Yes I guess an accident would qualify. In the strictest sense. It would be considered an "evil" act yet not done with evil intent. When we are considering an all knowing God, I'm not really sure that God could justify an accident as a reasonable excuse though. Agreed. Especially if you consider that each civilization and culture around the world has a different take on what God considers to be moral behavior. And I would say that each person has a different opinion as well as to what he/ she feels is God's opinion.Edited by AdminPhat, : fixed quoteEdited by AdminPhat, : No reason given.