“Perhaps God and his guidebook for humanity, the Bible, was right all along? That God (not the gods) is identical with good(ness) and, therefore, His commandments in the Bible applied to law and society is the only good government.”
God is good. This is God’s character. To be good means to BE good. God IS goodness. That is, what he is is good. There is no sense in which goodness surpasses God or God surpasses goodness. As being is the essence of his nature, goodness is the essence of his character. God’s goodness means then that there is an absolute standard of righteousness (it is found in God’s character). Ethics is transcendent and is based on the character of God as good. Ethics is what we ought to do; morality is what we do.
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