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Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
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RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
(September 5, 2014 at 7:17 am)Esquilax Wrote: virtue must be separated from god...

It's certainly a requirement for engagement with the Euthyphro dilemma. But it's not at all required in Christian theology. 'God is love'. But I'm pretty sure we're not going to agree on this one.


Quote:Here's another question for you: how did you decide that god was the good one and satan the evil one?

For two reasons. Firstly on a pragmatic level, because if we said 'Satan is good' then that would be very much at odds with 'goodness' as we apply it at a mundane level, to other men. It would require goodness in the supernatural realm to have no, or even an opposite, relationship to what we normally consider good in the Earthly realm. It would be an affront to our conscience. It wouldn't make any sense to me. Secondly I can't see how to make sense of the idea of goodness being something that we get from a creature rather than the creator (not that I am sure that I see Satan as a specific creature, but that's a whole other discussion!).
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RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?” - by Endo - September 1, 2014 at 11:56 pm
RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?” - by Michael - September 5, 2014 at 7:31 am

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