(January 21, 2011 at 1:05 pm)dqualk Wrote:Quote:Then I can't have made my point well enough. If a god is the source of morality why is it not possible to prove these things?
This is a good and difficult question. I would say it is because God thought faith was necessary to the best possible of all worlds; maybe it is a necessary property of a temporal thing. Maybe it is becasue we are not and can never be omniscient, so faith must be a principle part of our being.
But I can understand why that would make it more difficult ot believe in God.
I'm not sure I understand your response, but I would say maybe it is because god doesn't exist. However I am not sure what this has to do with faith. If an omni god really is responsible for morality, then morality should be immutable, absolute and objective whether we follow it or not. However evidentially morality appears subjective, although some ethicists would not agree on some points of morality. But the point is we cannot agree and if a god left us not only unable to aprehend his morality, but also argue on whether morality truly exists objectively at all, then he is not only testing faith, but also acting capriciously. Becuase whilst he plays celestial hide and seek with himself and issues such as morality, he also is marking our cards as to if we are good enough or not to 'meet him'.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
