Well, it's a generally accepted fact that God doesn't break the rules.
That one stems from the whole all-good and omnipotence thing. If God had to break the rules to do something, then the rules God created were poorly made, and someone who is omnipotent shouldn't be able to make something poorly.
This doesn't really have much to do with atheism, but if the rules are so good, why are there people who don't want to go to heaven?
If god is the source of everything, and perfectly moulds everything to to exact specifications, including its performance perpetually into the future, then free will CANNOT exist, as god created everything with full knowledge of what it would result in and deliberately chose to proceed with that state. If free will does not exist then religion, which exists solely within the realm of choice, is meaningless...
Here god seems to have a consciousness...
Can God do evil? By nature, no - since God is defined as the fullest being possible and evil is a negation of being, definitely not.
Thankyou very much for the definitions!
You define your god as being, and Evil as unbeing, this seems consistent with my definition of Evil...
This has nothing to do with the definition of a god, Evil is defined as opposing the one who defines Evil, in this case Evil is defined as opposing a god. So yes, a god CAN perform Evil actions, but only when its actions result in opposition to one of its purposes... This would seem to be the case when humans, which be, and therefore much be a part of all being, which would be your god, oppose one another's expression of that being, hence limiting the fullness of being.
Personally I would define a god as a patron, and as such there could be gods that have nothing to do with creation, I suspect that some stories of angels would be sufficient to define them as gods...
Your definition of Evil seems much better suited to destruction, which is, of course, an ever-present part of our world. Much more so than creation, as all things are created temporary with its permanent loss in its future. And such losses are eternal...
(Evil being defined here as a privation: A baby without wings has not had "evil" done to it, since it never had wings to begin with. A bird without wings definitely has had "evil" done to it.)
but what of a baby without life? Was it not created so that it would be given life and lose it with certainty? If your god is incapable of propagating Evil then why do birds have fragile wings, that can be lost without intent, as a simple result of existing in a place of your gods perfect designing?
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