Can We Philosophically “Prove” That God Must Be Good?

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Can we philosophically “prove” that God must be good?

If God is good would he have to be the absolute best?

Would humans have to be made to recognize what/who is the best God?

Who best describes a wonderful and perfectly Loving God? (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Mormon, J.W., Hindu or other)

Would no God be better than the Christian God?

 

[01CobraVortech]

Its a real challenge proving that the God of the Bible is "good" these days. Many people today simply have this view that a "good" god should behave like a genie. Or that he should be clearing your tables and acting like your personal waiter, if he is a "good" god. Humans have such strange definitions for what we call "good and "evil" that its just not an easy task to prove it from a philosophical standpoint to everyone. I believe it can be done, but to some audiences no argument will be accepted.

 

[Dane01]

Yes we as humans set standereds of what God can be and can't be. so if we say that since God did that he isn't God is from our prespective as sinners. Also "good" is just a point of veiw so it verries from human to human. So everthing God does is "good" even if we don't believe so from our prespective.

 

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I still am not convinced: “If there is a God he would have to be perfectly good and we would be able to realize that fact.”

I was thinking about the Movie “Groundhog Day” and how Bill Murray went from really bad to “perfect”, because he had so much time and had tried everything else. Would God have to be the same way?

Is there anything to be gained by God for being “bad” or “good”?

If God has a perfect unselfish type of Love, than that “Love” would compel Him to make beings that could Love like He Loves (for other’s sake and not His). Would that Love not be the greatest force in all universes since it would compel even God?

“The God” would then have to be “Love” since God would be subject to it?

The fact that our objective seems to be: “the obtaining of this Godly type Love” and the fact that is obtained only through our humbly accepting it as a free undeserving and unconditional gift (Charity), not suggest God must be this Love.

Can we not logically look at all that has happen and all that is happening, to see if God is being unselfish (Loving) and quenching His personal desires to allow those that are just willing to accept His help (God would not force even his help on those that did not want it) have the best opportunities to fulfill their objective?