you arrogant snot.


>This is an obselete objection. Plato's dichotomy is false.
>
>Something is good not because God says it is, nor does God say
>it is good because it is good.
>
>Goodness is the very NATURE of God,

Oh, so goodness is not defined by God's fiat, it's defined by man's fiat! Still this enforced synonimy doesn't seem to improve matters. The statement "God is good" is just as empty under this definition, and for essentially the same reason.

>and there is good reason
>to believe that goodness is chronologically prior to evil (as
>the story of "the fall" suggests).

Chronologically prior? I don't exactly see the relevance of that statement. However, you give us an opportunity to ask why, if goodness (and therefore God, according to your definition) is "chronologically prior" to evil, and God is taken to be all-powerful, why did He allow evil to come into being?

(Not to mention the fact that chronology is an entirely physical concept. There is no reason, other than conceptual rigidity, to use it in this situation.)