... thought of within Christian thought as perfect or wholly good. Many see this as moral goodness. This is why God is referred to as benevolent. However, in order for God to be a moral being, he would have to be part of a community. Therefore, God can't have moral reasons for the actions he takes. There are many instances in the Bible that shows God as good. The first being the fall. In this account, Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil inside the grounds of the Garden of Eden. Afterwards they saw it as a sin to God to appear naked before him. However, if God was happy with the way he had created the world, why did he make it able for the pair to disobey him and create a world with both good and evil? But the counter ...

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