RE: Atheist arguments and the morality of God.
April 7, 2014 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2014 at 2:04 pm by coldwx.)
(April 7, 2014 at 9:15 am)alpha male Wrote:(April 5, 2014 at 4:41 pm)coldwx Wrote: Somewhat semantic I think. Am I to assume you are appealing to some form of greater good?No, I'm not. Who are we to know that a god must have certain goals and desires, and that the desire that its creation not suffer, must be the greatest of its goals and desires? That's certainly a possible god, but it's not logically necessary.
The problem given was the morality of god, and this answer certainly does not convince me of that. "Who are we to know..." harkens back to answers such as "god works in mysterious ways" that are woefully insufficient. Perhaps you can elaborate? Are you saying god is not omnibenevolent or is not perfectly loving? If the desire or goal of god is not to spare the suffering of his creation, and human definitions of morality usually encompass this paradigm, how else are we to judge god's morality? God gives us the faculties to judge good and evil but does not abide by those himself, then how can we truly say what is right or what is wrong except by our own definition. This would then render our need for reliance on gods morality mute. It appears to me this is not different than "there must be a plan or greater good because we don't know gods reasons" , though I am definitely willing to try to understand the difference.
