RE: If you believe in the God of the Bible, why try to prove it logically?
June 19, 2013 at 2:22 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2013 at 2:25 am by fr0d0.)
(June 18, 2013 at 6:35 pm)Zarith Wrote:(June 18, 2013 at 6:16 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Our difference is that you don't confront the Christian belief that God is good. This is the perspective of the biblical narrative.But the statement "God is good" has 2 possible interpretations, with very different implications. Surely the believer has to at least decide which it is they believe.
Not at all. Goodness has only one meaning. To be good. What you're suggesting isn't good. It's a very much lower standard. One that would contradict the nature of God and the logical possibility of his existence.
(June 18, 2013 at 6:35 pm)Zarith Wrote:Quote:Your version of god gets to play fast and loose with his nature. That's all good fun.Does God's nature have goodness, or is goodness the property of being in God's nature? This gets us nowhere.
God doesn't 'have' goodness. God -is- good.
Goodness isn't a property of God. God -is- goodness.
