RE: Is becoming like God good or evil?
July 10, 2012 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2012 at 6:48 am by Reforged.)
(July 7, 2012 at 11:57 am)Godschild Wrote: A question that is interesting, I do believe that to become like God having a moral sense is evil, this is my reason, Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (disobey God) to become like God having a moral sense. This act cost mankind an innocence and cost man and God dearly.
Now, God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is, God said to be holy as He is holy, which means to be separate from the ways of the world. For those who love the world I guess they might consider what Adam and Eve did a good thing, those who love God would consider it a evil thing.
Well one second, thats a contradiction. You said Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (eating an apple, really?) to gain morale sense like God and then you say "God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is".
Well obviously not otherwise he wouldn't of forbidden the eating of the apple in the first place and even if this was the case according to you its an act of evil. Unless of course you're saying hes changed his stance on the matter. At that point I would have to ask how an omnipotent being that already knows everything about everything throughout eternity would change his stance about anything.
You could also be saying thats hes gone "Oh well, they've done it now. Might as well finish what they started." but again, he must of known all of this millennia in advance and this would make your morality interchangeable on Gods whim. How do you determine Gods whim? Based on this circumstance the whole Bible could be completely outdated, maybe hes re-evaluated everything. I mean the whole idea is filled with so many holes its absurd.
If hes all knowing and has been for all time and would already have come to his decisions about everything then no mind-changing is required. If we ignore that then this entails his morale views are subject to change at a moments notice which would make it an immensely bad idea to assert certainty about the morality of any action.
Which is it?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.