God is good?

You can't have a definition of right and wrong without God. So the apologists' argument goes. And yet when the Christian says "God is good," is he not judging God's character on the basis of a standard independent of God? Otherwise he would be stating a tautology, like "Single men are unmarried."

Further, if God is the source of all standards of goodness, then anything God did or does or commends must be good by definition. So if God told you to kill and eat your child, would you assume that was good behavior? Hardly. Unless you are a lunatic.

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