george allison whiteman said my god what have we done.
george allison whiteman said my god what have we done.
who said my god what have we done?
george allison whiteman
bullet::::- god's goodness: if "all" goodness is a matter of god's will, then what shall become of "god's" goodness? thus william p. alston writes, "since the standards of moral goodness are set by divine commands, to say that god is morally good is just to say that he obeys his own commands... that god practises what he preaches, whatever that might be;" hutcheson deems such a view "an insignificant tautology, amounting to no more than this, 'that god wills what he wills.'" alternatively, as leibniz puts it, divine command theorists "deprive god of the designation "good": for what cause could one have to praise him for what he does, if in doing something quite different he would have done equally well?" a related point is raised by c. s. lewis: "if good is to be "defined" as what god commands, then the goodness of god himself is emptied of meaning and the commands of an omnipotent fiend would have the same claim on us as those of the 'righteous lord.'" or again leibniz: "this opinion would hardly distinguish god from the devil." that is, since divine command theory trivializes god's goodness, it is incapable of explaining the difference between god and an all-powerful demon.
euthyphro dilemma
the pirke de-rabbi eliezer told what happened in after moses asked to behold god's presence in moses foretold that he would behold god's glory and make atonement for the israelites' iniquities on yom kippur. on that day, moses asked god (in the words of ) "show me, i pray, your glory." god told moses that moses was not able to see god's glory lest he die, as reports god said, "men shall not see me and live," but for the sake of god's oath to moses, god agreed to do as moses asked. god instructed moses to stand at the entrance of a cave, and god would cause all god's angels to pass before moses. god told moses to stand his ground, and not to fear, as reports, "and he said, i will make all my goodness pass before you." god told moses that when he heard the name that god had spoken to him, then moses would know that god was before him, as reports. the ministering angels complained that they served before god day and night, and they were unable to see god's glory, but this man moses born of woman desired to see god's glory. the angels arose in wrath and excitement to kill moses, and he came near to death. god intervened in a cloud to protect moses, as reports, "and the lord descended in the cloud." god protected moses with the hollow of god's hand so that he would not die, as reports, "and it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that i will put you in a cleft of the rock, and i will cover you with my hand." when god had passed by, god removed the hollow of god's hand from moses, and he saw traces of the "shechinah", as says, "and i will take away my hand, and you shall see my back." moses began to cry with a loud voice, and moses said the words of "o lord, o lord, a god full of compassion and gracious . . . ." moses asked god to pardon the iniquities of the people in connection with the golden calf. god told moses that if he had asked god then to pardon the iniquities of all israel, even to the end of all generations, god would have done so, as it was the appropriate time. but moses had asked for pardon with reference to the golden calf, so god told moses that it would be according to his words, as says, "and the lord said, ‘i have pardoned according to your word.'"
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