(January 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm)FreeTony Wrote: Yep, you have to start with the premise that God is good. As long as you maintain that you can explain away anything.
What can be interesting is asking a Christian "How do you know God is good"? The answer tends to be along the lines of faith, or "It's in his nature", or "you can't judge God". If you judge God by his own biblical morals then he is not good, which creates a problem.
More reasonable would be to believe in a slightly flawed God, after all we are flawed and supposedly in his image. It would sort out a lot of bible plot problems. However most people don't want to worship a flawed immoral God.
How do we know God is good? Because good is a standard of measure based on God. It is not independent of God. To have a standard independent of God, is to have a personal standard of righteousness apart from God. Or as Jesus identified it a "self righteousness."
