I would like to pose the question of whether or not God can be considered good or not. How he has been depicted in the bible, qua-ran and the old testament dose it come off that he's the bad guy ?
Take for example the story of Adam and Eve,dose getting angry at them for consuming the forbidden fruit and kicking them out of Eden make much sense ? What of the story of job ? Why let Ha-Satan mess with job and do nothing for him?
The interesting thing about this question pertains to God's relationship with morality. You must ask yourself if good and bad is defined by what God does, or whether it's not. Such that is something 'good' simply because Gods says or wills it so, or is it good in and of itself, and thats why God does it.
If the prior is true, and God defines what is good, then the question of whether God is good or bad becomes meaningless. He couldnt be otherwise.
Of course this raises problems regarding morality, that are pretty hard to justify. Should God decide that killing innocent children was good, would it really be so? Hard to believe...
So if morality is independent to God, it infringes on his omnipotence somewhat, and also questions his role in our lives, at least from a moral guidance perspective.
Assuming i believe any Biblical account that references God, (which i dont incidentally) coupled with certain arguments like the problem of evil, one would have to conclude that he isnt appearing as a particular good guy. (Clearly Im referencing the Judeo Christian God here).
