When the theologians of days gone past weren't solving the more important issues like how many angels could dance on the head of a pin or justifying the slaughter of thousands of people in Languedoc towns for the purpose of martyring a few hundred Cathars, they spent idle time in answering questions from readers like this one:
"Does God act as He does because it is right; or are God's acts right because He is God?"
Ooh. No wonder the medieval clergy wanted to restrict access to the written word.
Looking around I found a consensus among those with the appropriate credentials that God does what He does because He can only do what is right.
How handy.
Since God is limited - ?! - to what is right (as defined by ?) - then what is ordained by His spokes folk (as assigned by ?) must be right....right?
Well, so sorry, but saying it is so doesn't make it so.
As useful as it may be to force God (ha ha, as if) into a box of human proportions, they prove their error by their own delimits.
The only truth can be that what God does is right because He is God.
After all, He is the One who set the universe in motion, instituted the laws of physics, and decided the end from the beginning and, as hard as it may be for many to take, created the totality of what exists which means us, them and Lucifer...all with full knowledge of what every creature would do and how it would turn out, i.e., God created evil.
Only when you or I accept without reservation that it is all God's, it is all God, and nothing exists apart from Him, do we have a prayer to move beyond the materialist dimension...but, God knew that.
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