On Hell and Forgiveness

[Abaddon_ire]

It's not an epistemological problem, Steve, as was already pointed out to you in that thread.  As well as the problem that this results in your God's values being arbitrary and thus not an example of moral perfection in an independent thread.  Regardless, we're back to God is good because you say so.  And I'm the most beautiful woman in the world because I say so.  Big deal.  You can assert shit without reason.  So can anybody.  For the claim that God is morally perfect to have any value, it would have to be coherent.  It isn't, so you're just muttering incomprehensible gibberish and hoping that nobody notices.

The Christian God is defined as the greatest possible being (scripture-informed Perfecting Being Theology). If you cobble together some lesser characteristics and say "your God could be this way", you are redefining the word. For this conversation and every one after, I do not grant the redefining of the term 'God'. There is nothing incoherent about the standard definition. You can easily glean attributes of God from the Bible and then systematize them into a doctrine using philosophy/logic. The concept has been discussed since Augustine. 

Closer to the Truth has a nice series of interviews I just listened to https://www.closertotruth.com/series/wha...g-theology

We can glean god's attributes from the bible? Well that makes your god out to be an evil, genocidal megalomaniac.

You do, however, need a partial order that has a largest element. The problem is that 'greater' isn't well defined. Even if it were, there is no reason to think there is a greatest element.

So, at the very least, you need a consistent definition of 'greater'. Since there is more than one variable on which you want to measure (power, goodness, knowledge, etc), you have to find a consistent way to guarantee a maximum on each variable at the same time. This is usually impossible, even when each individual variable has a largest element.

Nope. Concerning God, the concept of 'greatest' does not require us to know what is actually the greatest. You are confusing ontology with epistemology.

You OK with genocide? Your god is.