This is an argument where the conclusion, dependent on how you answer, shows that good and evil do not have inherently good and bad properties or that some things are out of God's hands.
1. For the sake of argument lets says that God suddenly says that murder is good.
2. For murder to be good ,according to Christian tradition, then it has to have good consequences or else there would be things of God that are either bad or neutral.
3. There are only 2 ways, unless you can think of another, that this consequence can come into being. A. God has to physically remake the universe in some way in order for murder to have good consequences, since currently murder has bad consequences. Or B. Good, automatically remakes the universe.
If A. Then good and bad do not have inherently good or bad consequences, just because God says that they are good and bad. If B. Then the remaking of the universe according to this scenario is outside of God's hands.
2007-05-12
11:15:30
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