/lit/ - Literature

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The Bible

>>16598880
Cope

>>16305936
>Infinite power makes God amoral
This is the only logical possibility, but it's not a conclusive reason not to worship God. Amorality is baked into the system of the Bible though, and is also an empirical fact. This is because as is even said in Matthew 5:45, God causes "the sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and causes rain to fall upon the just and the unjust."

But that amorality is not immoral. It's just neutral or indifferent. Anyway, Jesus continues saying from Matthew 4:46 onwards; "if you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect."

From this latter exhortation to be "perfect" we can observe that what he really means is "be amoral, and don't rely on human ideas of morality." People will disapprove of this, but if we define "morals" to mean subjective human morals (which I think in the 21st century we must concede all morals are subjective), the only objective way to behave in a world of subjective morality would be to behave amorally. Consider how Atticus Finch goes against the morality of the deep south in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and how he argues the case of a man from the deep south's visible underclass in court without a moral bias, in other words, amorally.

Therefore the only way in which an amoral God ought not to be worshiped, is if we humans were moral. But since we are immoral, God's amorality puts him above us as something worthy of praise and emulation.