problems with God's goodness
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- Created on: 14-01-13 15:19
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- Problems with the concept of God's goodness
- God is perfection but affected by time and space
- God is eternal/infinite but involved in human affairs
- God is unchangeable but changed by human petitions
- God is just but only intervenes to help some
- God is good but there is so much suffering
- Christian God is immanent - miracles, prayer etc
- but being perfect means you are transcendent
- answer= Jesus is mediator
- like a bridge that link God to humans
- answer= Jesus is mediator
- but being perfect means you are transcendent
- The Euthryphro Dilemma
- 'Does God command things because they are good or are they good because God commands them?'
- Good because God commands them
- makes goodness arbitrary (he couldn't chose other alternatives- not stable/would change)
- God commands things because they are good
- makes goodness separate and superior to God (challenges transcendence/ omnipotence ect
- Good because God commands them
- 'Does God command things because they are good or are they good because God commands them?'
- makes goodness arbitrary (he couldn't chose other alternatives- not stable/would change)
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