The question of goodness always comes up, where did this concept come up from - where is the source of such comprehension.
2007-04-30 13:41:45 · 9 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is One who is good.. It's not me. I have broken most every moral law that man has ever known. There are over 600 Laws that Moses brought to the people. Many of these have become the basic for our modern legal system. To be good a person would have to keep them all.. No one ever has, no one but Jesus Christ. He there offered Himself a sacrifice for our failures our sins. He offer complete redemption to all who by faith will reach out and except the gift... Jim
2007-04-30 13:53:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our concept of 'good' and 'bad' originates in our Morality instinct - which all higher social animals have. The instinct arises because without it, no animal society can stay together.
All things which ultimately benefit the group are 'good' and those that harm the group are 'bad'.
Note that these things are relative: to us, a wounded leopard in pain is a bad thing, because it exercises our sympathy for others - which is so wide in scope that it takes in strangers and even others species.
But to a leopard, another wounded leopard is just great, because they don't like others of their kind anywhere near them.
A human yardsticks for good and evil is the result for the society. What's good for that society, is Good.
CD
2007-04-30 20:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"We can ask, is God good because to be good just is to be whatever God is; or is God good because God has all the properties of goodness? If we choose the former answer we again find that goodness is arbitrary, since it would be whatever God happened to be, even if God were a sadist. So we must choose the second option: God is good because he has all the properties of goodness. But this means the properties of goodness can be specified independently of God and so the idea of goodness does not in any way depend upon the existence of God. Hence there is no reason why a denial of God's existence would necessarily entail a denial of the existence of goodness."
--Julian Baggini
2007-04-30 20:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by jtim24 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Simple - I don't see things in terms of "good" and "evil". That's just not how the world works, because everyone has a different interpretation of "good" and "evil".
I would say that religion is the source of these interpretations. All surviving religions today have based themselves on conflict between "good" and "evil", or "heaven" and "hell", etc.
2007-04-30 20:45:43 · answer #4 · answered by Gordon Freeman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even I have my own indiscretions. Don't worry about being good. Just live and be nice to each other.
2007-04-30 20:56:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the perfect example of what is good. You might feel good about yourself when you compare yourself with the bad example, but place yourself next to Jesus and you know what it means when we say that we all fall short from the glory of God. : )
2007-04-30 20:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nobody. Myself. It ain't. You're the first one that brought it up.
2007-04-30 20:44:58 · answer #7 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...each and everyone has a mixture of good and bad...of varying degrees...
...it is and it isn't...
2007-04-30 20:46:43 · answer #8 · answered by each may believe differently 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only God is truly good... all love and grace flows from Him...
2007-04-30 20:44:55 · answer #9 · answered by holy_see 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋