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3350, RE: alright, settled.
Posted by Streezus619, Fri Oct-31-03 08:13 PM
sorry, I didn't know your background.

Still, there is the problem of what morals are God's morals. I mean, to stay with your question, it COULD be the case that the person who blows all our asses to smithereens is acting in accordance with the morals of God, say God thinks our egos have gotten too big and he wants us gone. That's just a specific and it doesn't illustrate my point too well. Even if I grant you that morality consists of the things God loves and immorality of those things he hates we still have a problem of distinguishing which actions go where, and under which circumstances an immoral action may be justified. We have no way of accessing God's intellect or of understanding his judgement faculties (or criteria). Therefore we have no way, as humans, of correctly classifying any act as moral or immoral. The most we can do is judge according to our standards and we have no reason to believe that they are the same as Gods or that they even resemble his in any way. Another problem is, what if God changes his mind, which seems perfectly logical with him being all powerful...he can do whatever he wants, right? So then we have the problem of any set of moral actions constantly changing, or the possibility of such change, which renders us completely incapable of ever consciouslly acting in a moral way. To get out of either of those problems we have to make assumptions about God's character...and that just seems ignorant of us to even attempt. Feel?