Sentence examples for god goodness from inspiring English sources

Mr. Blackburn writes that "Think" is "for people who want to think about the big themes: knowledge, reason, truth, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness, justice".

As an alternative ethical theory, Lewis offered a form of divine command theory which equated God with goodness and treated goodness as an essential part of reality, thus asserting God's existence.

But even when we have discounted the creaturely mode of signifying, we are left with the fact that God's goodness is not like our goodness.

Augustine thinks that all divinely-created things – including, of course, human beings – are good in so far as they share in God's goodness.

They propose that God and goodness are identical and that this is what makes his commands good.

Thus, Hartshorne can say that God's goodness is not diminished if a fragmentary being is heedless of the good of others, by indifference or harmful intent.

Now, one might dispute the claim that if God's goodness consists simply in God's living up to a standard that God has set for Himself, then that goodness is far less admirable than we would have supposed.

At Three Quarks Daily, Robert Talisse and Scott Aikin expound two traditional defenses of hell's compatibility with God's goodness.

"It's like, 'Oh, God, thank goodness.' We didn't change anything up from the other years to this year.

Leibniz coined the word theodicy for the defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in the face of human suffering.

This belief in ultimate divine justice provides a rationale for theodicy, the reconciliation of God's goodness with the existence of evil in the world.