In this series on God and his morality, the first I would like to address is the question of God being amoral. "Amoral" simply means that one does not have morals of right or wrong. For example, cake is amoral. Cake isn't right or wrong, it's just there. Let's take a blanket. A blanket is not good or bad. It's literally just a piece of cloth.

So, the question to address today is, is God amoral? This question can be addressed from one of two perspectives. One is that we are talking about the biblical God and using the Bible as our source of reference, and the other being we are talking about the idea of God and general and using what we know about the world as our reference. I would like to address both here.

As to the first, the Bible makes it clear that God is not amoral. God has set up a universal code of right and wrong that He expects even Himself to keep. For example, God has said lying is wrong, and even He Himself keeps this law. He does allow for those in authority to use their power over others, for example, a king may sentence someone to death if they are wicked. As a whole though, God's moral code in the Bible is consistent, hanging on the principles of loving God with all your heart and others as yourself. If we look at the Bible and trust it as a source of truth, it is clear the God talked about in there is not amoral.

Hebrews 6:18 - That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Even though God's specific manners and expectations of humanity have changed, His moral code as a whole has not. He may not have revealed everything at once, but the morality of God is presented in the Bible as always having been the same. Murder was always wrong, but God was more merciful with Cain than He was with David because He had not revealed it was wrong personally to us. He was not amoral, but He did have different expectations over time. That is a significant difference.

Now, let's say we are looking at the world as a whole. Let's say we do not to take the Bible as necessarily a true or untrue statement and merely looked at the world to decide if God is amoral.

From this perspective, it is true that it would be much easier to conclude God is amoral. There are things that certainly hint that God has a moral code. For example, humans all over the world have mostly consistent ideas of right and wrong. Now, this varies from place to place, but most places on earth will say that murder, rape, and stealing are wrong, as a few examples. This consistency points to the idea that humans were built with ideas of morality. Some may therefore conclude that if all humans are build with this moral code, it is logical to conclude God Himself would also have this moral code. This thinking is slightly flawed, because just because we are built with something does not necessarily mean the person who made us also has this.

It would be strange though that the entire universe would be made with such strict moral laws in our minds, while the one Who made us would not also have a code of some kind. It would seem contradictory, and one would think someone would not make something that was in some way a part of them. To make humans with such a keen sense of right and wrong yet to not even posses it as a Creator, seems unlikely to me personally. Again, this is not definite, it just seems unlikely.

Besides this, our entire universe is run on the idea of laws. The natural world has strict rules for how it operates. Gravity, the laws of motion, etc. are all signs again of a Creator who believes in order and consistency. Again, this does not offer definite proof, it is merely evidence.

To conclude, it is true that if we do not believe the Bible, it is impossible to definitely say that God is moral or immoral. If I may say so, it is equally impossible to say if God is amoral based on what we see though. Rather than learning a lot about how God is, we really learn about how people are from observing the world. We know about the creation, but not necessarily the Creator. There is evidence pointing to a universal moral code, but that is all.

That is why, I believe, it is important to know what we should go to as a source to learn about God. If God is not something we can learn about solely by our own reason and observations, we need Him to reveal Himself to us. Then it comes down to what we should trust as the proper revelation. Should we trust a holy book, the words of a supposed man or woman of God, or our own thoughts? These things, I believe, are in order of great consideration since God does not reveal Himself morally through nature. In the future, I will be using both the Bible and what we observe in the observations of if God is evil or not, and not solely one or the other.