God's Goodness
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- Created on: 29-04-15 22:05
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- God of the Bible: Morally Perfect.
- Seen in Christianity to be wholly good.
- Act of creation itself is evidence of the goodness of God.
- Moral Perfection and the source of Human Ethics.
- Act of creation itself is evidence of the goodness of God.
- Examples of God's goodness (God as a Lawgiver).
- Moses: Direct commands from God on the behaviour that God expected from Humanity.
- The Decalogue (Exodus 20): A summary of peoples religious and social duties, expanded in the rest of the Torah.
- In the Old Testament ...
- God is seen as personally involved with the behaviour of people.
- Does God command things because they are good, or are they good because God commands them?
- Biblical God = angered by injustice. All humanity within his creation are treated equally.
- Euthyphro Dilemma: Socrates raised dilemma in writings of Plato.
- If God only commands what is good, good exists externally from God and does not come from him.
- God as a dictator. If he said **** was okay, it would be.
- Problems.
- The imposition of rules by God = question whether humans have free choice.
- If the believer goes against God's commands, they are punished. This means that they have no freedom of choice.
- Not having free will goes against the notion of God's goodness.
- God's goodness is not separated from humanity.
- love for humanity.
- Chance of salvation.
- Reincarnation in the form of Jesus.
- Seen in Christianity to be wholly good.
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