Personally, I think that Good and Evil exist as concepts seperate from God. Why? First, if Good and Evil are whatever God wants them to be, that positions God as a tyrant and that's frankly not how I personally experience God. Second, I think it robs God, Himself, of the fundamental
choice that every human being has to wrestle with -- whether to be Good or Evil. And it is with this choice that I think Man is created in God's "image". We aren't Good, Evil, or simply Amoral by nature like animals. We have a choice. Do people honestly believe that humans have a capability that God doesn't have?
The understanding that God could be Evil but chooses not to be makes God much more Good, in my eyes, than simply making it a tautology that anything God does is Good. By that thinking, if God were purposely torturing little children or sending Good people to Hell just for the heck of it, that would be "Good". And if you argue that God wouldn't do that because God is Good, that just proves my point. God's options and actions are limited in order to for God to be good, then the definition of Good must be something external to God. Put another way, if God werelike Satan, would you find Him worthy of worship and your love?
If you read my earlier post, you would see that I have said pretty much the same. Ultimately, the CHOICE is yours and yours alone. Your choice is between good and evil. HOW you choose depends on the strength that comes from within, and that strength isn't there by accident. Like I said. We CAME with instructions, whatever the interpretation.
Abortion is evil, but the human mind can rationalize and make it SOUND right. Sounding and being are two differest things.
G-d was literally *humanized* in the OT. He lost his temper and then forgave when He cooled down. He allowed Himself to be negotiated with...but that only reinforces the belief that we were created in His image. Maybe we don't LOOK like G-d. Maybe it is the way our minds work that we can think, be, and do.
And, free, DNA is life no matter how you splice it. CREATE DNA from nothing? Nope.