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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
"For God everything is beautiful, good, and just."
I read this quotation from an ancient Greek philosopher a while back. It took a momont for its profundity, its irony, its subversiveness to sink in. Think about the meaning of "everything" in the sentence. It's scary, but this quotation comes closest to summing up my view of what a god must be like of any I've read.
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The Mormon God is depicted quite different than this. By some descriptions (now being refuted by neo-Mormonism) he is a perfected man, who reached his level of power through obedience to eternal principles, that he is bound to. Which is very different than a god for whom "everything is beautiful, good, and just."
If God is some kind of yin/yang combination of opposing forces we call good and evil (i.e. "God" is both God and Satan), then the Greek conception would be correct. After all this is our existence, and in some ways, despite all the sordidness the whole chaotic system could be conceived as its own form of beauty and justice.