[Debate] Is God real? [Religion] (445)

355 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-27 01:02 ID:Heaven

Is it just me, or is the postulation that an absolute moral standard of good and evil would not exist without God completely irrelevant to theodicy?
The problem of evil does not cast any doubt on God's existence: it casts doubt on whether God, if He exists, is both benevolent and omnipotent as is the popular Judeo-Christian conception of Him. If God and/or morality don't exist at all, then the problem is moot.
As such, I don't think it even belongs in this thread. You should start a new one if you want to debate it further, separate from the problem of God's existence.

Anyway, theodicy aside, proofthatgodexists.org's central argument as I understand it seems to be that all absolutes (logic, morality, uniformity of nature) have to derive from a transcendental and likewise absolute existence - God.
My question is, why does this absolute have to be God? Why can't it just be an absolute? If it is a god, how do we know it is the Judeo-Christian God? Since it's transcendental, it is impossible to formulate any meaningful theories about it, and I don't see there could exist any evidence of its precise nature either.

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