(February 21, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Nope Wrote: The god of the bible is a sociopath. I am curious if Christians can explain why their god is good without resorting to "Because the bible says"Good is a relative term, even with nazis their were 'good' people. So to say God is or we are 'good' is meaningless with out some measure of standard in which to identify good.
If you take the bible out of the equation then to say God is good means as much as you saying you are good or I am good. It becomes a trivial discussion based on what a given person believes to be good.
Which again is why I bring up 'good' nazis. All it takes for one to be considered 'good' in a given culture is popular belief. For if you were raised to n a genocidal culture to be considered 'good' is to follow popular belief.
That begs the question is God 'good' given what popular culture deems to be acceptable behavior? No. But, again so what? When did pop culture EVER reflect what true good/righteousness is? Pop culture is always been about being with in the bounds of the lessor of two evils.. That is why we all eventually devolve into a nazi/ISIS type of self righteousness. The only thing is their isn't always a society or being to oppose the biggest bully/society on the planet right away,no the biggest bully's self righteousness gets left unchecked.