Is becoming like God good or evil?

[Opsnyder]

If torturing a good person forever is not evil than I don't know what is.

[Godscreated]

If torturing a good person forever is not evil than I don't know what is.

Yes torturing a person would be wrong, God does not torture, He punishes because people choose to be punished. you will not find torture in scripture anywhere. Prove that God tortures and don't use the same old tiring bunk that is posted here all the time, show us something that the others haven't.

[Tobie]

If torturing a good person forever is not evil than I don't know what is.

Yes torturing a person would be wrong, God does not torture, He punishes because people choose to be punished. you will not find torture in scripture anywhere. Prove that God tortures and don't use the same old tiring bunk that is posted here all the time, show us something that the others haven't.

Shows how much you know about the bible. Look at Revelations 9:5-6; "they should be tormented for 5 months", or Revelations: 14:10-11 where it says "he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels"

And before Drich comes here moaning about his precious "definations" torment is a synonym of torture.

[Reforged]

A question that is interesting, I do believe that to become like God having a moral sense is evil, this is my reason, Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (disobey God) to become like God having a moral sense. This act cost mankind an innocence and cost man and God dearly.
Now, God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is, God said to be holy as He is holy, which means to be separate from the ways of the world. For those who love the world I guess they might consider what Adam and Eve did a good thing, those who love God would consider it a evil thing.

Well one second, thats a contradiction. You said Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (eating an apple, really?) to gain morale sense like God and then you say "God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is".
Well obviously not otherwise he wouldn't of forbidden the eating of the apple in the first place and even if this was the case according to you its an act of evil. Unless of course you're saying hes changed his stance on the matter. At that point I would have to ask how an omnipotent being that already knows everything about everything throughout eternity would change his stance about anything.
You could also be saying thats hes gone "Oh well, they've done it now. Might as well finish what they started." but again, he must of known all of this millennia in advance and this would make your morality interchangeable on Gods whim. How do you determine Gods whim? Based on this circumstance the whole Bible could be completely outdated, maybe hes re-evaluated everything. I mean the whole idea is filled with so many holes its absurd.
If hes all knowing and has been for all time and would already have come to his decisions about everything then no mind-changing is required. If we ignore that then this entails his morale views are subject to change at a moments notice which would make it an immensely bad idea to assert certainty about the morality of any action.
Which is it?

[Godscreated]

Yes torturing a person would be wrong, God does not torture, He punishes because people choose to be punished. you will not find torture in scripture anywhere. Prove that God tortures and don't use the same old tiring bunk that is posted here all the time, show us something that the others haven't.

Shows how much you know about the bible. Look at Revelations 9:5-6; "they should be tormented for 5 months", or Revelations: 14:10-11 where it says "he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels"

And before Drich comes here moaning about his precious "definations" torment is a synonym of torture.

One can be tormented without torture, simple really.

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A question that is interesting, I do believe that to become like God having a moral sense is evil, this is my reason, Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (disobey God) to become like God having a moral sense. This act cost mankind an innocence and cost man and God dearly.
Now, God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is, God said to be holy as He is holy, which means to be separate from the ways of the world. For those who love the world I guess they might consider what Adam and Eve did a good thing, those who love God would consider it a evil thing.

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Well one second, thats a contradiction. You said Adam and Eve had to commit an act of evil (eating an apple, really?) to gain morale sense like God and then you say "God wants us to live as close to the standard that is who God is".
Well obviously not otherwise he wouldn't of forbidden the eating of the apple in the first place and even if this was the case according to you its an act of evil. Unless of course you're saying hes changed his stance on the matter. At that point I would have to ask how an omnipotent being that already knows everything about everything throughout eternity would change his stance about anything.
You could also be saying thats hes gone "Oh well, they've done it now. Might as well finish what they started." but again, he must of known all of this millennia in advance and this would make your morality interchangeable on Gods whim. How do you determine Gods whim? Based on this circumstance the whole Bible could be completely outdated, maybe hes re-evaluated everything. I mean the whole idea is filled with so many holes its absurd.
If hes all knowing and has been for all time and would already have come to his decisions about everything then no mind-changing is required. If we ignore that then this entails his morale views are subject to change at a moments notice which would make it an immensely bad idea to assert certainty about the morality of any action.
Which is it?

For someone who claimed (key word claimed) you know little if any thing about God and His scriptures. Adam and eve sinned because they disobeyed God, God made it clear there would be consequences to this action and there was. God has never changed His mind, and God needs not to prove things to Himself, He is proving to creation that God is absolutely righteous and just.

[JohnDG]

When you are a being of ultimate and infinite power, there is nobody that can judge you. Good and evil no longer hold sway over a mind of infinite capacity. Read the bible, god is neither evil or good. But he is destructive.

[Godscreated]

When you are a being of ultimate and infinite power, there is nobody that can judge you. Good and evil no longer hold sway over a mind of infinite capacity. Read the bible, god is neither evil or good. But he is destructive.

Exactly what Bible did you read, it's not the one inspired by God. Christ himself said no one is good except God.

[Adjusted Sanity]

What is god? What is good? What is evil?

[JohnDG]

When you are a being of ultimate and infinite power, there is nobody that can judge you. Good and evil no longer hold sway over a mind of infinite capacity. Read the bible, god is neither evil or good. But he is destructive.

Exactly what Bible did you read, it's not the one inspired by God. Christ himself said no one is good except God.

The one where he drowns tens of millions of people in a great flood, the one where he kills the first born son of every egyptian, the one where he forces the first human beings to commit incest. Should I keep going on?

[Godscreated]

Exactly what Bible did you read, it's not the one inspired by God. Christ himself said no one is good except God.

The one where he drowns tens of millions of people in a great flood, the one where he kills the first born son of every egyptian, the one where he forces the first human beings to commit incest. Should I keep going on?

Please do.