Is becoming like God good or evil?

[Greatest I am]

Is becoming like God good or evil?

I would like to restrict giving God any other attribute except for knowing good and evil in this thread. Just for simplicity.

I have two quotes I would like you to consider.

“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.”

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

Knowing good and evil is the same as developing or gaining a moral sense. This is something that all governments and religions wish to develop in us and seems like a good idea to me.

If being perfect like God means that we must have the knowledge of good and evil, then Adam and Eve had to eat of the tree of knowledge ---- if they were to accomplish what most seem to think is a worthy goal. Morals. As God says in Eden, such is to have your eyes opened. A good thing IOW.

In the Jewish view, A & E did the right thing and they name it our elevation. In the Christian view, they did the wrong thing and call it our fall.

Is becoming as Gods, in the moral sense, good or evil?

If evil, please explain what is evil about developing a moral sense and following scriptures that tell us to be as Gods.

Regards
DL

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Is becoming like God good or evil?


IF I became like a god it would be Thor, not that YHWH areswipe. Or perhaps Krsna. If I wanted people to be terrified of me I would become like Huitzilopochti, Aztec god of war.



PS 'Evil' is a subjective moral value,it has no objective reality.

[Angrboda]

IIRC, the problem was not so much that they also knew good and evil as that if they also partook of the tree of life, there would be nothing separating man and God. But I haven't really studied the matter, and I think there are possible interpretations which omit the selfishness seemingly implicit in the Gods' motives. (My personal alternate interpretation is that until Adam and Eve fell, they did not truly experience their freedom of will; to be free is to have limits (or in a favorite quote, "It's only your chains which set you free."). I'm not sure I grasp the nature of your hypothetical. You can't truly be good if you can't also be evil. So while their moral possibilities were insufficiently completely formed prior to knowing good and evil, knowing both makes both possible, and therefore it is neither good or ill; it is simply open possibility.

[Zen Badger]

If I'm going to be a god I'll be Bacchus, that dude knows how to seriously PARTY.

[Drich]

Is becoming like God good or evil?

It depends on your motivations.

[The Grand Nudger]

Strangely enough, that seems to have gone the same way for god. Good here, evil there. Really human kinda guy, definitely a character one could relate too.

[Godscreated]

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.

[Ace Otana]

Is becoming like God good or evil?

Not sure how to answer that question really. I guess being god like, as in having the power of a god then I guess it's down to what you do with that power.

Not sure what else to say on the matter really.

[Rev. Rye]

A Quote from Mark Twain.

"I will tell you a pleasant tale which has in it a touch of pathos. A man got religion, and asked the priest what he must do to be worthy of his new estate. The priest said ´imitate our Father in Heaven, learn to be like Him.´ The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly, and then with prayers for heavenly guidance instituted his imitations. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs, and she broke her back and became a paralytic for life; he betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper, who robbed him of his all and landed him in the almshouse; he inoculated one son with hookworms, another with the sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea; he furnished one daughter with scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens deaf, dumb, and blind for life; and after helping a rascal seduce the remaining one, he closed his doors against her and she died in a brothel cursing him. Then he reported to the priest, who said that THAT was no way to imitate his Father in Heaven! The convert asked wherein he had failed, but the priest changed the subject and inquired what kind of weather he was having, up his way."

[Creed of Heresy]

Considering Stalin? A heinous evil.