Oh Platon! Today I read Plato's dialogue Euthyphro with my 11 year old brother. It's all about finding an ultimate standard for holiness. Some of the finer points were hard for me to figure out, not to mention the difficulty in trying make sure Justice was understanding it. But it made more sense with the second reading. The dialogue ends up going in a huge circle of reasoning, basically because Euthyphro's concept of holiness is connected to his fickle, quarrelsome Grecian gods. When the gods can't agree, how are mortals supposed to know what pleases them? and so forth.
"Be ye holy, for I am holy!" says the God of Israel.
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"good" is ultimatly no more than the whim of the most high. That's what I took away from Euthyphro. of course an infinite eternal Whim is nothing to snif at!
A whimsical God. To be sure, God is not predictable, He is the supreme judge, and He rules the universe with ultimate power. His actions can seem quite arbitrary, such as loving Jacob, and hating Esau; hardening the heart of Pharaoh for the express purpose of crushing him. In the words of Lewis, "He's not a tame lion."
You got it PD, God's whimsy is not to sniff at.
But the God of Israel is Echad, and is not divided. If He is holy, good, then we have an absolute standard to strive toward. How can we complain with the way He deals with mankind? In Him we live, move, and have our being.
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