(April 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm)RobbyPants Wrote:(April 7, 2014 at 4:44 pm)alpha male Wrote: Benevolent does not equal good. It would be benevolent for a judge to sentence a serial killer to eat a piece of chocolate cake and go on his way, but few people would think it's good of the judge to do that.
The problem I have with any of these analogies involving humans is that humans have a lot of qualities that God typically does not, and vice versa. For example: the judge did not create the legal framework in which s/he works, has no foreknowledge of the crime, and presumably no ability to stop it.
God has options that judges do not. Also, doctors, parents, and police officers (other common analogies I see). If God is great, these analogies seem to be poor. If the analogy is good, then it seems to explain that God has a limitations like people.
It's a dumb fucking analogy anyway. A judge who lets a serial killer back on the street is not benevolent.
A judge who murders babies in his free time, when he's not releasing rapists and killers into the streets to do his bidding is also not benevolent.
But if the judge is God, it's a-ok.
