I am not sure I agree with any of the statements that you have made.
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Originally Posted by xxl_w2
It doesn't matter if X is good if your brain interprets it as being evil.
Are you absolutely sure about this? What if you later find that you interpretation was incorrect. Things that I thought were evil etc. when I was young I now view in a more nuanced manner. Good and evil are not perceptions like green or red. They are moral judgments that can change as we grow.
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An evil god would make good things to appear evil to the brain.
You are going to have to show your work on this one. It seems much more likely that an evil god might make evil things appear good to the brain if he could although even that seems like a lot of work for a creator who essentially wants to accomplish evil.
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The human brain has negative emotions like hate, fear, envy. If a good god created these, why did he create negative emotions?
To some extent negative emotions are beneficial. Fear certainly has a valid survival value. Envy is an emotion that can be destructive, but it is also a possible positive. One can become emotionally stronger by recognizing envy and dealing with that negative feeling in a positive way. The same is true of hate. Those things can make us stronger if we recognize them as negatives and refuse to let them control. And perhaps that is the answer to your question.
Of course, there is the equally speculative but possible answer that negative emotions are an inescapable aspect of the structure of a creature with free will, so that we could not be created without them.
Last edited by RLK; 05-22-2015 at 12:52 PM.