(August 15, 2010 at 7:42 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God hasn't commanded, allowed or written that he is good, he simply is supremely good.
By whose standards? His own?
Quote: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.
In other words, God can say whatever the hell he likes, and it's good by definition. Or have I misunderstood you? Certainly, I doubt that you intended to imply this.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
