That’s a phrase that I heard recently, and I think that it’s from some famous philosopher, but uhm…
I don’t know how to debunk it.
I’m doing my best to believe without thinking too much about that.
Some days it gets hard tho, so I’d like to hear you guys’ take on it.
So, what you’re saying is that the Book of Job disproves the divinity of a god?
This idea rests on the notion that the human ideas of good and evil are universal, and apply to a god. Why should that be the case? What if god has decided that murder is good, and will reward everyone that commits murder with a spot in heaven?
still doesn’t address acts of God that kill and hurt so many (earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.), nor things God would have created and is responsible for like the existence of and harm from parasites, diseases, hereditary conditions, etc.
The core assumption here is that our definition of good is the same as any god’s definition of good. What if this god has a definition of good that seems evil to us? What if god enjoys and approves of genocide, of earthquakes that kill thousands, or volcanic eruptions that cause crops to fail and mass starvations for the next two years?
Why assume that any god would have our best interests in their heart? Why not see god as someone that’s a Warhammer 40K enthusiast, someone that enjoys pitting enormous armies against each other in wholesale slaughter?
because the definition of omnibenevolence uses our concept of goodness, the Christian concept is that God is all good in the sense that we mean it …