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Re: One of my issues (Warning: even wordier than usual)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:41:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> So in essence, and all other impossibility questions aside, I'm asking how
> believers know God to be good.
I don't understand the goal in seperating this from the question of asking how
believers know God to be. If you accept that they know that God exists at all,
why not accept that they know God to be good as just part of the definition of
God?
> otherwise, we must also accept the existence of bigfoot
I wear a 12... ;-)
> 3. God is morality
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> The benefit of 3 is that it allows God to remain the ultimate being, and it
> also allows morality to be inherent in existence since exists more certainly
> than something that is omnipresent, such as God. The problem of 3 is that I
> don't think anyone really believes it,
That actually kind of seems like something James said in another post in this
thread. Is there any difference between "God is morality" and "morality is
[part of] God?"
From where do you (anyone, I guess the Daves especially) think that morality
comes? I have a kind of knowledge that I can't account for very easily. I
think of it as this stuff written on my heart. I believe that I know the
"right" way to be because it is a part of me. I try to justify, rationalize,
and explain this "innate" knowledge -- you've seen some of that here. But even
when I can't, I ca't convince myself that my heart is wrong. It could be a
line to God, it could be complex interaction of social experiences, it could be
my bicameral mind (or schizophrenia), or something else entirely. Does
everyone have this? And in many ways my moral dictates seem at root to be the
same as what most people think as 'right.' But there are lots of
disagreements too -- sometimes even between my intellectual and emotional
notions of morality.
Chris
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