If the former, isn't good arbitrary?
If the latter, isn't the good a higher reality than God?
2007-01-26 02:16:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question. I would suggest a third possibility... God is the good. Christians believe that all truth and morality exist based on the character of God. So, He is the ultimate reality that defines what is good and bad, by His eternal nature. So, good has to have always existed as a companion to God, because God cannot exist without good because He is good... and if good has always been here, then so has its opposite. I like the question
2007-01-26 02:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by Kevan D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The good transcends an image of an old guy with a long white beard. Too many people mistake what is willed by Men to be what is willed by God. I don't think most people (me included) understand what God is and so latch on to some manmade theological system that will comfort them and make them feel that they know good and evil on the authority of a higher being that is but an image of the real thing.
2007-01-26 13:44:47 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the first one. If it wasn't then killing the firstborn of Egypt wouldn't have been considered good. In Christianity might makes right and since god is the mightiest....
Let's not go into other religions yet.
2007-01-26 10:20:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is good?
You can only measure "goodness" in relation to "evilness" so evil makes it possible to see what is good.
Therefore being evuil can be good and vice versa.
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Dialectecal Monism and allow logic and reason prevail over cultism.
2007-01-26 10:21:47 · answer #4 · answered by Bohdisatva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the good is good because over time our society developed certain opinions on what is and isn't good, not because God made it good
2007-01-26 10:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋