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To: Greg or e who wrote (7560)	3/6/2001 9:43:01 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

>The reason that there is a universal sense of right and wrong in humans< Exactly what do you mean by this?

To: Greg or e who wrote (7560)	3/6/2001 12:46:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Greg I posted a question based on a hypothetical situation of God being evil but I don't actually believe he is. I don't need to be convinced that he is not. Perhaps another question I could ask is what is right and wrong, right or wrong because God says it is or because the it is extrinsicly right or wrong and God in his wisdom recognizes this. I would think that most Christians who have examined this issue enough to form an opinion on it would believe the first idea while I would support the second. I think this puts me in a very small minority. The problem I have with the first idea is that if something is right or wrong merely because God says it is right or wrong is that any number of horrible things could then be considered right if God said they were right. If you assume a wise, just and good God, then presumably you don't have to worry about him calling these things right, but I still have a problem with the idea that deliberately causing suffering, death and destruction to no positive end and with no justification would be just fine if someone said it was, even if that someone was God. Tim