(August 26, 2020 at 10:50 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: There's lots of things humans can do that God supposedly can't: lie, make mistakes, learn, grow as a person, feel guilt or shame...it's probably a very long list.
Must be why he's even named Jealous, being the very embodiment of the thing he wants to be able to do that we can already do. Like, it's as if there's a whole religion made out of that.
Besides, lying is more sophisticated than being a goody good boy and only being able to tell the truth all the time. Also, metaphysically: truth ≠ good, and lie ≠ bad. Being truthful or deceitful isn't automatically a moral value. I'm sure you can imagine scenarios in all 4 combinations, as well as a very long list of partial combinations, exemplifying good/bad outcomes tied with truth/lies.
To continue my distasteful defense of lying; lying takes more intelligent creativity than just stating what is true. Saying what is true that have moral consequences (in general too) is just stating facts and honest opinions. While with lying, you actually have to make some shit up in a lot of situations with moral implications (yes/no questions not included), stuff that - if you don't want to be caught in lying - has to be believable and pass the plausible deniability threshold if you are caught lying.
However, honesty gets you pretty far, I'm sure. It's just the problem when someone with bad intentions needs to get lied to to protect yourself and others.
