Posted: Feb 15, 2018 7:11 pm
So, to borrow from Thomas Aquinas and Norman Geisler, let's break down WHO GOD IS.
1. God is PURE ACTUALITY. Meaning He is pure EXISTence with no possibility of change.
He is NECESSARY... He is a Being whose non-EXISTence is impossible.
His ESSENCE (what He is) is EXISTence.
He is non-temporal and ETERNAL... 'I AM'.
I hope I established as best I could in this space, what Christians would call His Sovereignty or what most would call OMNIPRESENCE.
God as the unlimited sustaining Cause of all creation, is wholly present to everything.
2. God is also SIMPLE. He is not composite or divisible. He is perfect in His EXISTence and is wholly and complete.
3. God is also OMNIBENEVOLENT. He is love (based Scripturally John 4:16 as well). God could only ever perfectly will our good.
He cannot will anything other than our good (we often will otherwise).
God is love and gives us the freedom to choose, as we all know, LOVE must be accepted willfully.
Anything else is not love. To willingly refute God is NOT good nor true love, since it separates us from Him.
Think of light vs. dark. Love = Light. Dark = Rebellion or sin.
So, God's SIMPLICITY points to His OMNIBENEVOLENCE... since He cannot be partly good and partly bad, He must be WHOLLY one thing.
He is WHOLLY Good.
So, whatever comes from God, the OMNIBENEVOLENT, OMNIPRESENT, OMNIPOTENT, IMMUTABLE, ETERNAL, PURELY ACTUAL, I AM... is WHOLLY GOOD AND MORAL.
It/He/Commands cannot be anything else.
Now, to say that chocolate pudding or a fire breathing dragon gives morality, is ridiculous because:
1. Pudding has a cause and therefore cannot be eternal, infinite or creator.
2. Dragons would also have a cause as you mentioned because it exists as you 'have one' and therefore cannot fit any of the attributes above.