I should like to nit-pick for a moment.
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Originally Posted by asaris
Finally, it is not possible for the greatest possible being to be evil, because it is better to be good than evil.
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Whatever is and is not possible of the greatest possible being (if that is in actuality coherent) Besides pointing out that saying anything about 'good' and 'evil' is non-sensical when speaking of God's nature.
God is not good because it is better to be good then evil, better worse, good and evil are all human symbols, if we decided that it were better for God to be evil, would he be so?
God, I take it, does not conform to human expectations a propos to his nature any more than laws of nature do.
I believe, and I have only started to study religious philosophy, that it is taken as a fairly common tenent that only negative qualities can be ascribed to God.
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Otherwise asaris, quite well put.