What would you say if someone asked you to prove that God is good?
First I might ask the person where he or she gets the very idea of "God". If the answer happens to be something along the lines of, "the Bible", then I would proceed to retell the story of the first man. And it would go something like this: In the beginning was the Father and His Son. And the living Son desired to make a living creature: the first man. The Father then says to the Son, You know the living creature will come to be tested: what do you propose to do when the creature turns against us? (the Father knowing the answer of course), and the Son says, I am willing to give myself if need be so as to help him stand upright again. So the first man was formed of dust from the adamah, that is, the soil, and he was earthy, dust-like, and from below, the consummate natural man: and he was formed before any plant of the field was in the earth, and before any herb of the field had sprouted. Then, in the third day, Elohim struck in a garden of Paradise, and planted fruit trees bearing fruit each one after its kind, and he put the man with his helpmate into the garden of Paradise. But Elohim commanded the man not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because, if and when he did, then in the day wherein he ate of it, dying he would die, (surely die). But of course we all know the story; the natural man cast aside the one commandment Elohim had given him, and ate of the forbidden fruit of the forbidden tree, (together with his helpmate of course).
So the man died in the same day wherein he ate of the forbidden fruit of the forbidden tree, that is, in the fourth day, (when the greater light, the lesser light, and the stars were made, when days and years and seasons and
time commenced). And while the man slept the slumber of a dead man the Father says to the Son, Watta ya say we make a day as it were a thousand years and a thousand years as it were a day? It alters nothing written in the heavenly tablets: and the Son says to the Father, I know you have already done that, Sir. Now this is mercy, and the first instance of it, and Elohim is therefore Good.
Then the Father says to the Son, For now all we really need is your skin; and as for the rest, we have until the sixth day to make all the preparations for the Great Day. So the Lord God made the man and his helpmate coats of white-light skin, with the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and this is both mercy and grace, and Elohim is therefore Very Good. And with these very good things the man
lived nine hundred and thirty years, almost a whole day. Ah, yes, God is Good, Very Good.
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