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without scrutiny...? In fact, most Christians use God's law as the basis of, and justification for, their ethical code.
But just because God is all-knowing and all-powerful, does that necessarily mean that He's an ethical and benevolent being? What if God is everything that Christians think He is, except good? Maybe He's not entirely evil, either - maybe He goes back and forth between both, just like humans.
That would eradicate the age old problem of why God allows evil and suffering. It would also explain how God could be so wrathful in the Old Testament, and Jesus could be so forgiving and merciful in the New Testament. It would also explain how a loving God could create things like pubic lice.
How about it, Christians? Doesn't this touch on the age old Socratic question - is the good good because God likes it, or does God like the good because it is good? Or, Euthyphro, are the gods like college frat boys who will give you pubic lice and then laugh about it?
Buddy Christ: Yeah, I know. Still, I can try, can't I?
Buddy Christ: Good call.
But just because God is all-knowing and all-powerful, does that necessarily mean that He's an ethical and benevolent being? What if God is everything that Christians think He is, except good? Maybe He's not entirely evil, either - maybe He goes back and forth between both, just like humans.
That would eradicate the age old problem of why God allows evil and suffering. It would also explain how God could be so wrathful in the Old Testament, and Jesus could be so forgiving and merciful in the New Testament. It would also explain how a loving God could create things like pubic lice.
How about it, Christians? Doesn't this touch on the age old Socratic question - is the good good because God likes it, or does God like the good because it is good? Or, Euthyphro, are the gods like college frat boys who will give you pubic lice and then laugh about it?
Buddy Christ: Yeah, I know. Still, I can try, can't I?
Buddy Christ: Good call.