Is God perfect and good?
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God is always perfect & He is good all the time
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If you're 'not that bad', you don't understand the standard you are being held to. God is PERFECT. ANY deviation from perfection cannot be tolerated, and so anyone that ever did or thought anything wrong can never enter into His Presence.
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Why is there evil and suffering in the world? \nThe question implies that if a good God exists, then evil shouldn't because God, being all powerful, should stop it. \nWe need to ask and answer two questions. First, what is evil? It is that which is against God. It is anything morally bad or wrong. It is injurious, depraved, wicked. Some acceptable examples might be murder, rape, stealing, lying, and cheating. Second, if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop all evil, or just some of it? In other words, if just some of it, then why? If He were to stop only part of the evil, then we would still be asking the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"\n     Let's suppose that someone was about to commit murder. God would have to stop him, maybe whisper in his ear, or if that didn't work, do something a little more drastic, like have something fall on him, or stop his heart, or make his hands suddenly fall off. Anyway, God would have to do something.\n      What if somebody wanted to steal? God would have to stop him too, right? Undoubtedly, God's imagination would permit a more practical method than I have suggested, but the end results would be the same.\n      What about lying? If someone were to tell a lie, then to be consistent wouldn't you want God right there to stop that person from lying? After all, He couldn't let any evil occur, could He?\n      Let's take it a step further. Suppose someone thought something evil. Then, of course, God would have to step in and prevent him from thinking anything bad at all, right? The end result would be that God could not allow anyone to think freely. Since everyone thinks, and no one thinks only pure thoughts, God would be pretty busy, and we wouldn't be able to think. Anyway, at what point do we stop - at the murder level, stealing level, lying level, or thinking level? As your question implies, if you want God to stop evil, you would have to be consistent and want Him to do it everywhere all the time, not just pick and choose. It wouldn't work.\n      Evil is in this world partly because we give it its place but ultimately because God, in His sovereignty, permits it and keeps it under His control.\n      Then you might say, "Couldn't He just make us perfect and that way we wouldn't sin?" He already did that. He made a perfect angel, Satan, but he sinned. He made a perfect man, Adam, and he sinned. He made a perfect woman, Eve, and she sinned. God knows what He is doing. He made us the way we are for a purpose. We don't fully understand that purpose, but He does. \nGod is sovereign; He has the right to do as He wishes. He has the right to permit evil for accomplishing His ultimate will. How can He do that? Simple, look at the Cross. It was by evil means that men lied and crucified Jesus. Yet God in His infinite wisdom used this evil for good. It was on the Cross that Jesus bore our sins in His body (1 Peter. 2:24) and it is because of the Cross that we can have forgiveness of sins. \nConsider the biblical example of Joseph in the Old Testament. He was sold into slavery by his brothers. Though they meant it for evil, God meant it for good (Gen. 50:20). God is so great that nothing happens without His permission, and in that permission His ultimate plan unfolds. In His plan He is able to use for good what man intends for evil. God is in control.
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Here's another noodle-baker.  If God is all powerful and all-benevolent, why is there evil in the world at all?  Either he is not all powerful (if he were he would have no evil) or else is not all-benevolent. (He could wipe out evil but chooses to allow evil things to happen anyways, something a loving and good God would not allow.)\nTake your pick, either way God is not all-perfect.
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1. If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.\n   2. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.\n   3. If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.\n   4. If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   5. Evil exists.\n   6. If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   7. Therefore, God doesn't exist.\n   8. If God doesn't exist, hell can't exist either.
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What [is] that good, acceptable, and perfect, will of God?\nThat all should come to repentance and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. This is His will because He wills to have a loving relationship with His creation (Mankind). God gave man dominion over the earth and all with in it. He gave Man free will. Man's will sometimes collides or goes against God so God in mercy gently and methodically corrects and instructs us to bring us back to the good, acceptable, and perfect, will of God
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No. See God for details. LOL, just kidding.\n\n No there isnt a perfect man that exist on earth. There are bad men, MAD men, average men, sensitive men, strong men, arrogant men, good men, and great men but no perfect man exist (nor will there ever) on earth.
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By DEFINTION, God is good. \nAnything He does is good, never bad.\nTherefore, if He does something that *seems* bad to us, there is a good reason for it.
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If there is a god, he could do whatever he wants.  \n\nPeople say god can't sin but when you ask what sin is, the usually define it as going against the will of god.\n\nOf course god won't go against his own decisions.  That doesn't mean he won't be an evil bastard.  His will could be to torture you for no reason.  Tough luck for you.  Since his will is what believers define as good, torturing you is good.\n\nIn fact defining "good" as whatever is in god's will makes the word "good" meaningless.  The word "good" shold be defined outside of god's thoughts or action, then we can determine if god is good or not.\n\nOr, to make things much easier, we can realize that god doesn't exist and be done with it.
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nope, and nope\n\n   1. If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.\n   2. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.\n   3. If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.\n   4. If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   5. Evil exists.\n   6. If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.\n   7. Therefore, God doesn't exist.\n\nSo it seems kinda silly to die in the name of god, right?
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Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all? \n\nSister Miriam Godwinson \n"But for the Grace of God" \n\n--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.\n\nCause GOD'S NOT PERFECT!\nHe makes mistakes, just as we do, mut since he has more power, when he screws up, it SUCKS for us.
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GOD is LOVE, for he is PURE and PERFECT!!!  Genuine LOVE like GOD is also PURE and PERFECT; because GOD cannot die, nor can PURE, PERFECT LOVE....\n\nHope this helps, Savannah.  I LOVE GOD and am also IN LOVE TOO...it's beautiful
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GOD DOES NO WRONG.HE WONT FORSAKE,LIE,HATE OR ANY OTHER SINFUL THING
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God is Love, he doesn't send any soul to "Hell", we are a part of him. He does not make mistakes and abandon his "original" plan and this earth WILL be paradise one day.
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you know the same God? right. so much so that you have typed it G-d...right. as for whether you really are saved or good with God, no one can be the judge of that, except God Himself. however, the only TRUE RELIGION is christianity. end of story. it's the religion behind believing what you need and having the right relationship with Jesus/God. so there ya are. the truth.
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god to me is a belief , to help be on our right path, by loving him ur promosing to ur self to TRY to avoid dong sin.But no one is perfect, if god exist and he will understand it too
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Absolutely not.  But I do believe that God can use whatever we submit to Him for our ultimate good.\n\nGod shows His power to some degree by using even what is bad to accomplish good.\n\nConsider the story of Joseph. Remember how his brothers were jealous of his dreams and visions and they threw him in the pit, sold him into slavery, and told Jacob he was dead?\n\nHe went on doing what was right, even though he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife and thrown into prison.\n\nAfter he interpreted Pharaoh's dream, he became the second most powerful man in Egypt and saved not only Egypt, but his family from famine.\n\nWhen he is reunited with his brothers and they weep for what they have done, he says, "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." Genesis 50:20\n\nWe also see from the crucifixion that God can use the worst Satan can do to God's ultimate glory.\n\nIt's not that evil is good or that evil is God's will. It's just that God is powerful enough to use Satan's own efforts against him.\n\nAnd I believe that the tragedies that befall us in our lives are not good things. But if we are willing, and submit them to God, He can use them for our ultimate good. God will not waste our pain