Is God Good?
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the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.
google is not the beginning of knowledge.
Gordon Clark is not the beginning of knowledge.
accusing God of evil is not the beginning of knowledge -- it is the antithesis of the beginning of knowledge:
to accuse God of evil is to despise wisdom.
Proverbs 1:7 is exactly what i told you from the beginning: your rabbi Clark is in error from step 1 because he drops the axiom God is good and ignores its corollaries, that God does no evil and everything God does is good.
thinking that God causes, creates and engages in sin but escapes judgement because of His throne is 100% in opposition to the fear of the LORD.
google is not the beginning of knowledge.
Gordon Clark is not the beginning of knowledge.
accusing God of evil is not the beginning of knowledge -- it is the antithesis of the beginning of knowledge:
to accuse God of evil is to despise wisdom.
Proverbs 1:7 is exactly what i told you from the beginning: your rabbi Clark is in error from step 1 because he drops the axiom God is good and ignores its corollaries, that God does no evil and everything God does is good.
thinking that God causes, creates and engages in sin but escapes judgement because of His throne is 100% in opposition to the fear of the LORD.
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yes, Ahab was presented with the truth and the lie and listened to the lie rather than the truth.
what spirit is it that persuades men to call God the author of evil and the motive force behind sin?
is it a lying spirit or is it the spirit of prophecy?_______________
what spirit is it that persuades men to call God the author of evil and the motive force behind sin?
is it a lying spirit or is it the spirit of prophecy?_______________
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if God gets out of being judged for His own sin ((as Clark & Dave et al accuse God of)) on the technicality that there is no court in which to try the LORD and no law with which to convict Him, then equally God cannot be called 'good' because by the same argument there is no standard by which to praise Him.
Clark & his disciple Dave present an amoral & capricious god victimizing humanity.
Clark & his disciple Dave present an amoral & capricious god victimizing humanity.
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I think it would be beneficial to properly define evil. There is malice and sadistic evil, like disembowelling someone, serving no purpose other than cause pain. Then there is judgment and destruction with purpose, like cutting somebody’s insides apart....to remove a cancerous tumour. The Lord is not a sadist, He’s the surgeon. There is no separate word for “evil” in the Bible. It just means destruction. The purpose is what exemplifies the character. Sending His Son into the world to be crucified was “evil” to His Son, yet had a purpose that hopefully every poster in this thread can appreciate.
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yes!! thank you.
always good to set out agreed-on definitions.
how about the good ol' 'principle of first mention' ?
the very first evil described in the scripture is the accusation that God is not good. Satan lied to Woman, telling her that God had lied to her.
Clark & @Dave-L et al similarly say to us, God is not good. they say, God causes you to sin then capriciously judges you for it, effectively sadistically murdering you, your children and your animals ((c.f. Exodus 17:3))
always good to set out agreed-on definitions.
how about the good ol' 'principle of first mention' ?
the very first evil described in the scripture is the accusation that God is not good. Satan lied to Woman, telling her that God had lied to her.
Clark & @Dave-L et al similarly say to us, God is not good. they say, God causes you to sin then capriciously judges you for it, effectively sadistically murdering you, your children and your animals ((c.f. Exodus 17:3))
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