I personally think it's ridiculous that you can somehow argue that 'God's understanding of morality transcends petty human understanding'... because why would a supreme God create such petty humans that can't understand morality like he can, and who do such almost unspeakable things in places over the world?
So you see immorality and imperfection in a world that was supposedly perfectly made (he didn't do an at all shabby job) by God, and you explain that all away by saying that he understands it in ways we don't?
Sure, I would imagine a perfect being's understanding would transcend ours , but what makes you think that it's so plausible that this is 'all part of his plan'. and that he would really allow such bullshit to go on in the world he supposedly perfectly created... if he really is so perfect, so divine, and so compassionate?
This is just my views on the implausibility in my eyes, by how God, if he exists, can in any way be good by what we mean when we say good. If it transcends our understanding then surely it must transcend our definition? Because the way the world is certainly doesn't match the definition... it's not "perfect" or "nice" for the world to be exactly how it is, it would be better if it is better.
Sure maybe he's "good" 'in ways we don't understand', but then that's not what we mean by "good" is it?...
... how is God, if he exists, "good" considering the state of the world, if "Good" is to be used by what we - generally - mean when we say good? How is this loving, compassionate, perfect, divine work by a God? If it transcends all those things, then how does it match our definitions of them? And if it doesn't match the definitions, why believe God is "Good" in the first place? He could be anything...
P.S: I don't claim to know anything here of course, this is all done by me hypothesising and looking at things through what I understand to be "good" or "bad", and others must do the same because it is by definition the only way that we can know what is "good" or "bad"...so to say God simply transcends them... how do we know that what he is is at all "good" then, if he can't fit our labels at all?
EvF
So you see immorality and imperfection in a world that was supposedly perfectly made (he didn't do an at all shabby job) by God, and you explain that all away by saying that he understands it in ways we don't?
Sure, I would imagine a perfect being's understanding would transcend ours , but what makes you think that it's so plausible that this is 'all part of his plan'. and that he would really allow such bullshit to go on in the world he supposedly perfectly created... if he really is so perfect, so divine, and so compassionate?
This is just my views on the implausibility in my eyes, by how God, if he exists, can in any way be good by what we mean when we say good. If it transcends our understanding then surely it must transcend our definition? Because the way the world is certainly doesn't match the definition... it's not "perfect" or "nice" for the world to be exactly how it is, it would be better if it is better.
Sure maybe he's "good" 'in ways we don't understand', but then that's not what we mean by "good" is it?...
... how is God, if he exists, "good" considering the state of the world, if "Good" is to be used by what we - generally - mean when we say good? How is this loving, compassionate, perfect, divine work by a God? If it transcends all those things, then how does it match our definitions of them? And if it doesn't match the definitions, why believe God is "Good" in the first place? He could be anything...
P.S: I don't claim to know anything here of course, this is all done by me hypothesising and looking at things through what I understand to be "good" or "bad", and others must do the same because it is by definition the only way that we can know what is "good" or "bad"...so to say God simply transcends them... how do we know that what he is is at all "good" then, if he can't fit our labels at all?
EvF
