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To: Thatcherite
Well, sometimes definitions are part of our understanding of things. Some quibble to say that what is good is prior to God, but I think we've been there already (5th c. BC). All the same, the classical Western understanding is that God's purposes are good.

BTW, Odysseus isn't guilty for being mean to the Cyclops, neither are judges indicted for being just.

87 posted on 10/18/2005 1:34:57 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis
All the same, the classical Western understanding is that God's purposes are good.

So, are you saying that some absolute standard of "good" exists external to God and that God conforms to it? Who defined that standard?I've always understood the Christian viewpoint to be that whatever God does is automatically good.

88 posted on 10/18/2005 1:52:23 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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