(April 9, 2009 at 5:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Analogies never seem to be complete. I don't see why we'd need to attribute more than natural forces to natural events. Why should God be behind it? God is above morality, being perfect. Maybe if God created the physical universe and it's laws then natural forces just 'are' is all there is.
Say you take the Christian Bible and use that to understand the nature of God. From there the reasoning is that God is good. In my faith I certainly see God doing no evil. It'd be contrary to his nature as I understand it. My interpretation is that he is all good.
I find the conclusion that God is all good to be quite a strange one. The bible tells us that God is jealous. If God is all good and is also jealous, this means jealousy comes under the catergory "good". I think it's double standards when God can be jealous but we're not allowed to feel the slightest bit of envy towards our neighbour with the beautiful wife. That would be sinful and we should take out our own eye for that sort of crime.
How come God is allowed to be genocidal and still pass as good, yet we shall not kill? This isn't a case of morality. This is you saying that the authority figure can do as he pleases, but we are bound to a different set of morals which we cannot waver from. It's a rigged game where God can tell us what is evil whilst simultaneously doing that exact thing but still passing as good because of your false premise that the bible was being honest when it told you that God was always good O.o
It just screams "cult" so loudly in my ears. But, as always, I will assume I misinterpretted your position and would be happy for you set me straight.
