The point is: whatever God DOES or SAYS is righteous because of who He is. Righteousness is whatever God does or says because nobody can put Him in His place.
So....God is Good by definition, becuase
nobody can kick His ass and say otherwise? Might makes right?
Wow. If I follow that example, anything a man with a gun does is "good," becuase nobody withut a gun can "put him in his place." If I'm stronger than you, if I have more power than you, I can do whatever the hell I want, right up to rape, murder, and theft, simply because I
can?
This has to be the most immoral and senseless description of what defines right and wrong I have ever heard. I would
never worship a "god" who defines right and wrong as "whatever I say, becasue I'm bigger than you." I don't worship bullies.
You know, Hitler had more power than most other people on Earth. If the Allies had not opposed him, would the Holocaust have been "good," since nobody would have "put him in his place?"
Sodom was a very wealthy city, self contained, extremely "nationalistic" with a blind hatred to almost all outsiders. When a foreigner would come upon their city he would be welcomed with a party, then the next day they would turn on him and tie him to a post in the middle of town, and leave him there to starve to death forbidding anyone to feed him.
And so this justified the murder of the children present in the city who were too young to have taken part or even understood the injustices you mention...how exactly?
And this is not the reason commonly attributed to the destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah. The vast majority of fundamentalists and literalists believe it was due to a preponerance of
homosexual sex! I'm not sure where you're getting your information.
Everything in your post points to God being a bully, an iron-fisted despot who kills and destroys on a whim entire nations and cities, for the mere crime of disobedience. You then call it "justice" becasue He's more powerful than anyone else.
God is not a schoolyard bully. The very idea that God is good by definition simply because He's more powerful than anyone else is, frankly, despicable.
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