WOTM: God's Nature
When Christians are asked about the Euthyphro dilemma — do the gods love good action because it's good, or is good action good because it's loved by the gods, they now reject that as a genuine dilemma, instead saying that there is a third option: That goodness comes from God's nature. I'm not sure how that doesn't make it arbitrary. Maybe you can help me out with that. But the bigger problem is that we have all kinds of empirical data regarding God's nature (if you accept that the Bible is a record of God's dealings with humans).
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The whole flood thing is a case in point - to destroy every living thing on earth cause he didn't realize how his 'creation' would turn out! I guess he/she/it/them turned off their 'all knowingness'!
More and more, philosophers and theologians are abandoning one of God's omni properties in order to make the concept work. It started with Rabbi Harold Kushner. That latest is philosopher Phillip Goff. It still fails, but at least they're seeing the problem.
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You have to now, because I'm dying to know! 😘
I prefer Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version from Cinderella: “Do I love you because you’re beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you?” They also had a very cool fairy godmother.
LOL! 😂
Meh. Mental masturbation. We have no verifiable evidence for the existence of “gawd,” so why even try to figure out that invisible sky-daddy's “nature.” We do know, however, that Nature exists —and “good” or “evil” doesn’t play into it.
And God so loved violence that he created a sentient species to terrorize. The Holy Book, Ch 1 Verse 12
That does indeed seem to be the gist.
Riddle me this: Uh, who created God's Nature?
Exactly! Thank you!!!