Man does not have to judge God
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This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
This argument is an objection to There is too much suffering and injustice for there to be a god.
Summary[ edit ]
We cannot "judge God". By definition, his power and intelligence surpass human beings in every way. So we must assume that God does everything he does for reasons that escape us, but which are by nature perfect according to his qualities.
Cf. Book of Job
Quotes[ edit ]
“If God exists, he is perfect; if he is perfect, he is wise, powerful and just; if he is just and powerful, my soul is immortal; if my soul is immortal, thirty years of life are nothing to me, and are perhaps necessary for the maintenance of the universe. If I am granted the first proposition, the following will never be shaken; if it is denied, there can be no dispute about its consequences. [...] All the subtleties of metaphysics will not make me doubt for a moment the immortality of the soul, and a beneficent Providence.”
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Objections[ edit ]
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Hans Jonas' quote on God's incomprehensible goodness
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The argument of God's goodness is an arbitrary postulate
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Religious people have no problem judging God positively when it feeds their belief in a just world.
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God cannot be both perfect and endowed with the typically human flaws attributed to him in religious narratives.