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To: Sherman Logan

Then I guess you will have to chastise God when you meet Him. Perhaps He can get through to you.


23 posted on 10/22/2012 6:58:38 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

I don’t know if chastise is exactly the right term.

But I would like an explanation.

Is God good because He is incapable of being otherwise?

Or is something good, or bad, because God says it is?

The first “natural law” approach seems to me much more oriented to the Christian idea that God wants us to use our own reason to develop ideas about the universe.

The second notion, that good exists only as God proclaims it to be, seems to me much more suited to Muslim theology, where all Muslims are proud to be the slaves of God and never to even think of questioning His commandments (or what they believe to be such).

You may note that several of the more prominent people in the Bible argued with God quite directly, challenging whether his instructions were really the right thing to do. A Muslim would never even think of doing that.


24 posted on 10/22/2012 9:34:36 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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