Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?

[Esquilax]

Yes because that is thoroughly just. God can do no other. Objectively, that is his nature. God isn't good... good is God. Just like a court might sentence a criminal to punishment. Difference is... God is sure of his convictions, where a human judge can't be.

Normally I'd spend some time explaining exactly why this statement is amazingly circular, but as it happens I read a blog post recently that expresses the sentiment far more compactly than I could, by posing a short exchange between a theist making the same claim you are, and a second party:

“What is goodness?”

“God is goodness by nature”

“How do you know what is good?”

“Because it matches up with God.”

“How do you know that God is good?”

“Because I examine God and find he aligns with goodness”

“So what you’re saying is that God is like God, and that’s how you know he’s good”

“Yes. Don’t worry, Aquinas figured it out”

That's basically my sentiment too; if you're going to define god as good divorced from his actions then you've essentially stripped the word of all meaning. I do, however, have something to say about your last sentence: the sureness of your convictions has no impact on the correctness, or moral content, of those same convictions.

It's a basic attribute that we can know about God. The evidence is in the logic that leads to that. The opposing evidence is that everything in the bible must mean the opposite of what it says. Seems like a no brainer to me

And this is your support? Restating the initial claim in your first sentence, saying essentially "the evidence that supports that is the thing that supports that" in your second, and finishing with "if god isn't good then the bible is wrong!" as though that actually carries any weight as an argument?

For serious, though?