(September 28, 2018 at 10:09 am)Khemikal Wrote:(September 28, 2018 at 7:30 am)SteveII Wrote: 1. Love is a clear example of a moral virtue (if not the clearest).
2. Killing babies for no reason constitutes a lack of love and therefore a lack of moral virtue.
3. Yahweh is considered all-loving and therefore defined as having the greatest possible moral virtue at all times.
4. Greater moral virtue is better than lesser moral virtue because it regulates other attributes for more positive/less negative outcomes.
5. More positive outcomes is better than more negative outcomes.
6. Therefore Yahweh is greater than a god that kills babies.
Then god isn't the greatest possible being at all. He's an examplar of a limited series of limited sets. Great at what he does, shit at what he doesn't. I'll note again that he doesn't actually appear to be all that great at what he does, lol.
How do you contextualize number 2 and number 5 in the case of egypts firstborn? Seems like a lack of love might have lead to a bunch of negative outcomes that night. Failing at ones own self serving standard is the queen bee of own goaling. OFC, I'd suggest that everything above are your standards..not the standards of what does or doesn't constitute the greatest of great fairies. Great fairy might not act in accordance with what you need or want it to be...but it's probably doing exactly what it needs or wants to do.
First, I added a line to the syllogism in the original post while you were writing this.
Second, you are saying what makes someone great is what they do. That is not true. Only potential is required. The more potential the greater the being. If God exists, he existed timelessly causally prior to creation of the universe. You cannot say that God's properties were not great during this state.