RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 9, 2019 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2019 at 3:21 pm by Acrobat.)
(August 9, 2019 at 2:30 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 9, 2019 at 2:25 pm)Acrobat Wrote: I know that Good is good, and moral is moral.
How do you know what is good, and what is moral?
Probably not much different than anyone else does, or even a young child does.
Many of us might invest a lot into forming some obscure moral theories, and formulas, yet in the real world they serve as nothing more than justifications after the fact.
I see recognizing good, as matter of seeing, than a sort of answer to a formula. How do I know the sun is out, by looking out my window.
A 3 month old, responds differently to a character that helps another than to a character that hinders another person.
This infant isn’t forming a rational definition of good, but recognizing it, seeing it. I don’t see what I doing any differently than this.
(August 9, 2019 at 2:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 9, 2019 at 2:16 pm)Acrobat Wrote: What you and I might mean by moral will possibly differ, you perhaps see it as matter of actions, where as i indicate I see it as way of being. That being a good person is something about the nature or character of that person, than his actions.
A perfect way of being is God, so in that sense I might say God is moral.
There something about the essence of who Christ is, that reveals who God is, and it’s this that I call Good, or moral.
It is not immediately obvious that morality is a requisite of perfection, but leave that aside for now.
Is God moral because morality emanates from God, or is God moral because he follows moral strictures (it can't be both, by the way).?
Boru
As I’ve indicated I don’t see Good as something distinct from God, so it makes little sense to say that Good emanates from God, that’s like saying I emanate from myself.