(August 15, 2010 at 5:22 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: e it, this argument is not so much an argument against Christianity's truth, as against its being moral. Basically, the difficulty can be phrased like this: 'Is something good because God commands it, or does he command it because it's good?' If the former, morality is arbitrary. God could command the torture of babies, and that'd be considered 'good'. If the latter, then morality is independent of God, and we don't need a god for morality.Ah, I see what you're saying OO.
God doesn't "command" that we see him as good, We _deduce_ that he is good. If we take what the OT says that seems contrary to our understanding of 'good', then we have to rationalise that from our previous assumption: that we don't know the mind of God, and he, being all knowing, can make decisions that are good, which won't look that way to us.
If someone claimed to be enacting the will of God then that would need to be tested before we could confirm it.
