God Is Great

perfection is great, God is good, now we thank him for our food. This simple prayer reflects twin commitments in Christian belief to Gods enormousness and Gods morality. Yet Christian theodicies have often averred to Gods immenseness to the detriment of his goodness. Let us interpret Gods greatness in a air other than power. Indeed, let us escort Gods greatness, as the medievals understood Gods goodness, in terms of being goodness and being be interchangeable 1God is the intimately real being hence, God is the greatest being. God is great.Let us interpret Gods goodness in a manner analogous to human goodness. I take Gods goodness as analogous primarily to the parent-child relationship God is good, according to this analogy, as a father or mother is to his or her children. 2Caring for ones children is a paradigm metaphor in Scripture for Gods carefor his creatures. God is good. The purpose of this essay is to explore the ramifications of these two views for the problem of nu isance and especially for the problem of colliery. Judgements typically viewed hell as an eternal twirl chamber perhaps with God himself as the torturer.I shall expound both(prenominal) views of divine goodness, present some arguments in their defense, and then locate them at heart the context of a Theodoric of human suffering. I shall debate that neither is singly adequate as an understanding of the divine nature but, if both are maintained, a trilemma arises for the traditional doctrine of the eternal punishment of the damned. That is, I shall argue that one can hold the following three views only on pain of inconsistency 1. God is great. 2. God is good. 3. There is a hell (an eternal torture chamber).