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> >Robert Sutherland
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> >> 2. Job rightly puts God on trial through an Oath of Innocence
> >> demanding an answer to question of why God created that evil.
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> >Man cannot "rightly" put God on trial, since man has no basis by which
> >to judge God. God Himself is the arbiter of what is right and wrong and
> >He is not answerable to anyone but Himself.
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> And yet, after Job persistently and insistently asked for a trial, God showed
> up.
God is gracious. You'll note, however, that God told Job that he (Job)
had no case.
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In article <151.00.15.05.389614000@srcbs.org>, Bart Goddard says...
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>gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
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>>> He does things beCAUSE they are good. See the word "cause"?
>>> The a thing's goodness binds your God.
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>> This is within Himself, and has nothing to do with creation.
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>The "things" are not within Himself. You have some "things"
>which are good in their own right. God does them, and He
>has not choice, because those things are "good".
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>Well, we know your stance.
No, you still do not know it, Bob. You are still playing the same game of
putting Calvinist interpretations on Gary's words, to come up with teh same old
threadbare Calvinist Straw Man arguemnts.
>Scripture says differently.
No, it does not.
> The things are good because
>God did them, not vv.
Scripture NEVER says this.
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>>> A true omnipotent God defines good because He IS Good.
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>> I would say that a truly good God defines good because He IS Good.
>> He is truth.
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>This is using a word to define itself.
> You say "God is Good"
>because you have some standard of goodness and you're
>saying that God fits it. The rest of us say "God is Good"
>because all good and only good flow from Him.
But you are not ONE of these "the rest of us". For you attribute evil to God,
and then _call_ it 'good'.
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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
quidquid boni habet, tribuat illi a quo factus est.
(St. Augustine, Ser. 96)
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