Both beliefs are held among the religious.
Christian theology holds that God is good because He behaves morally. (Actually there is a general belief that God is incapable of behaving otherwise.)
Islam holds that God is free to do anything He desires and it's not our place to question Him.
Example:
Christianity:
God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
Islam:
Surely those who disbelieve, it being alike to them whether you warn them, or do not warn them, will not believe.
Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and there is a covering over their eyes, and there is a great punishment for them. (Sura 2:6&7)
2007-09-26 14:41:12
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answered by Phoenix Quill 7
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Morality is just another way of stating what a society has branded as good or bad in its own self interest for survival and good order.
Most moral systems favor conduct that tends to keep society cohesive and working constructively.
Moral systems have often been adopted by humans as ways of reigning in their society in a way that promotes the welfare of its citizens.
God is often used as a basis for moral systems inasmuch as a god figure would appear to have some authority which men lacked. Thus, Muhammed was able to sell Islam as a god-directed system when it weas unlikely that anyone would have accepted it had he simply claimed that he was stating his personal ideas about how to conduct life.
Similarly, Judaism had god-directives not because there was a god, but because people were willing to obey rules supposedly established by a god rather than a man. Not coincidentally, humans could claim they were acting in god's name when they enforced the allegedly god-given rules. Sort of a handy substitute for a legislature before that idea had fully formed.
2007-09-26 14:23:27
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answered by BAL 5
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Morality is entirely independant of a god. Morality is dependant on the society that person is raised in.
2007-09-26 14:20:04
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answered by meissen97 6
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I think that morality is independent of god, why else would evil be necessary in order to have good. If god could have caused the world to be perfect without evil then he would of. The fact that he didn't, to me says that he must, like us, only have a sense of what good and evil is.
2007-09-26 14:14:07
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answered by Anonymous
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