RE: Four questions for Christians
July 10, 2013 at 5:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2013 at 5:15 pm by Ryantology.)
(July 10, 2013 at 4:19 am)Consilius Wrote: If God is good, then good should go to God. Chrisitans perform good acts and claim that God helped them. God draws people closer to himself by prompting good from them. Evil is willful deviation from good, and from God. God does not prompt sin out of anybody, because that is contrary to him. Why would God make people do evil if he is good?
I really do not understand the justification for assuming that God is good. Just because the Bible says so? That is not good enough for me. Many of God's actions strike me as evil, as no amount of power, knowledge, or alleged 'righteousness' justifies killing people as he is said to have done.
Whether or not God is good, he still made it so that evil is possible. As evil can only happen by design, God is still responsible for it. One can also blame God for creating the conditions which most frequently inspire acts of evil, such as giving us a planet with limited resources.
Quote:The rules of logic are all that there is. The illogical is not a realm of limitless possibilities, because the illogical does not exist. What exists is all that there is. We can dream of the illogical, but the illogical cannot be done because it is not real.
To say that there are rules that cannot be circumvented would imply there is a higher authority than God, which is illogical in this case and therefore nonexistent. Omnipotence means that one can do anything, or all there is TO do. If there is something that cannot be done because it does not exist, then it does not constitute an uncrossable limit, because that would mean there would have to be something on the other side.
If God is subject to any limits or must follow any rules, it is illogical to to state that God is the ultimate authority. Why not worship the concept of logic if even God has to answer to it? Logic has no higher set of rules to answer to.
