to make God good — TheMadFool
The God concept arrived at via reason is a dead god. — Noble Dust
Some people have been told to stop coming up with so many great discussion topics. Are they paying you to do it? I noticed you have become a regular font of fertile topics. — Bitter Crank
Considering definitions list necessary and essential qualities it's understood that ALL 3 qualities (goodness + knowledge + power) are necessary for God to be God. — TheMadFool
So, does this mean that hidden in the definition of God is a clue that morality actually has no justification? Even an omniscient being, God, can't find reasons to be good and therefore goodness is an additional requirement to make God good. — TheMadFool
it exists as an abstract concept. — Possibility
exactly. Because it is a delightfully abstract concept that contains everything within it, and we really don't have a clue as to what everything is...
But I have concluded that it contains evil as well. I'm pondering what that means to me. — uncanni
Omnibenevolence would naturally follow from omniscience and there would be no need to add it to God's definition. — TheMadFool
Personally, though, I think the biggest error in understanding God is in the assumption that God is a being: an instance of existence. Beings exist in spacetime, but God has no defined spacetime location - it exists as an abstract concept. — Possibility
All these natural theology threads are no more than crossword puzzles. — Banno
I don’t think God contains everything at all. That implies ‘being’ something apart from what it contains, — Possibility
So, does this mean that hidden in the definition of God is a clue that morality actually has no justification? — TheMadFool
I think it clearly is a truth of reason that an omnipotent being is not bound by any law. But an omnipotent being is not bound by that truth, given that he is the one who made it true and so could unmake it just as easily. — Bartricks
So, does this mean that hidden in the definition of God is a clue that morality actually has no justification? — TheMadFool
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