(April 18, 2014 at 9:27 am)RobbyPants Wrote:(April 17, 2014 at 5:34 am)fr0d0 Wrote: God can't do evil, because he is good. Good is his most basic property. If a positive ion couldn't change into a negative ion, then God would be the positive ion. The negative ion exists as a natural counterpart, but is never the positive ion.
1. For an agent to be morally good it must be free to act.
2. God is an agent for good
3. God is free to act as his nature dictates
Morality isn't applicable where there is no choice to do evil.
Why not make all people intrinsically good, then, too? If the answer to that question is "to know that we love him" and God is defined as "good", then part of the definition of "good" is "purposefully putting sentient beings in a situation where they will suffer for purely selfish reasons".
We have an inbuilt moral sense > we can know what good is. This is what sentience is.
Part of the definition of good is that whatever you create at the same time a force exists to destroy it. That's the logical existence we inhabit.
