How is Yahweh not immoral?

[Darkstar]

[Rev. Rye]

The answer is simple:
1) The person in charge decides what's immoral or not.
2) God is in Charge.
3) Therefore, God gets to decide that he is the paragon of morality.

And the sad thing is that however well you argue, there will be people who will argue basically the same thing as I did, except seriously.

[Darkstar]

Yeah, pretty much. The thing theists fail to recognize is that being in charge and writing the rules doesn't make them good rules by default. Yahweh is referred to a number of times as a jealous god. How is this the paragon of morality?

[Ryantology]

I do not remember for certain, but I believe it was Drich who once outright admitted that God's authority comes, ultimately, from his infinite power. He has, on several occasions, asserted that God is not subject to judgement on the basis of human morals.

I will accept this in exchange for an admission that, going by that same logic, we cannot apply human standards of "righteousness" or "good", just as we cannot apply human standards of "morals". In other words, God is "good" only in the sense that he says he is, by his own standards in other words. What humans consider "good" does not apply to God.

This would actually be useful for the theist, as it resolves the idea of a "good" God with the inarguable fact that God is a horrible monster and that, by the standards of any non-psychopathic human, there is nothing good about him at all, and that God is "righteous" only by his own standards, whereas by our standards he would be the worst sort of criminal.

[Whateverist]

For the same reason unicorns aren't mischievous?

But seriously, the character of God in the bible is a bad ass jerk at least in the old testament.

[Aractus]

[Zen Badger]

[Gilgamesh]

A pretty weak straw man argument...

Clarify.

No, Paul said that and his scribe wrote it down, Jesus didn't say what you just quoted.

Okay.

Do you want to address this, now:

If the laws of the OT coincide with the inferior moral views of the day (i.e. slavery permitted, semi-regular mass murders, etc.) then this is more evidence that they were created by human minds.

?

Picking and choosing the parts of the Bible when God is angry is not going to help your argument.

Yes, it will. The topic at hand is about justification of Yahweh's immoralities. Bringing up a case where god is happy and does something nice wouldn't be relevant here.

If the character of God is as immoral as you claim, then you would be able to prove it by showing everyone that the character of Jesus is immoral.

Clarify.

[Aractus]

[Zen Badger]

Your god murdered an entire biosphere for the crime of being the way he made them in the first place.

Sounds like something ol' Adolf and Joe would be proud of.