To: stuartcr; RoadGumby
stuarter wrote:
Why should [God have a sense of right and wrong]? Hes the creator of all.
One idea might help to clarify, here: God is the Creator of all that IS, not the Creator of all that is NOT. For instance: God can create heat and/or light, since it is "something"; but God cannot create cold or darkness, since they are mere words used to describe the ABSENCE of heat and light, respectively. It's the same with evil: evil is not a "thing", but a privation (i.e. an absence of a good that should, by nature, be there)... and God cannot create evil; it would be akin to God creating "nothing"--it's simply not possible.
That, by the way, is the answer to the attempted criticisms/paradoxes which seek to refute God's omnipotence. "Can God create a stone so heavy that not even He can lift it?" "Can God create a square circle?" "Can God create a married Bachelor"? The answer to all of those is "no"... because every last one of them is literally nothing--"no thing". All of these examples are a mere string of words which have no meaning in reality; they're all illogical, nonsensical jumbles. One might as well ask if God can create _____ (i.e. the blank = silence)!
177 posted on
12/09/2011 8:39:41 AM PST by
paladinan
(Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
To: paladinan
Yes, he did write that.
That is why he believes that there is no good or evil to God. The concept of it is what exists, and it only applies to man, it doesn’t really exist.
179 posted on
12/09/2011 8:54:35 AM PST by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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