(November 14, 2013 at 11:30 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: We cannot judge God's actions as immoral because He has understanding that we do not. He acts for the greatest good, the big picture, past-present-future from before you were ever born and long after you have died and faced Him.I think that you are giving him and extraordinary amount of leeway. God can do no wrong, for reasons we cannot comprehend. It provides cover for all of the things god does that strike us as very "un-god-like." God is good, and if he does something that doesn't seem good, it's because we're too limited to figure out how it was actually good. It also means that god is capable of anything, and we have no option but to accept that it's good/just/moral.
He has a little more insight than us.
You're comfortable with that?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
