Why Is the God Good?
It is said that the God is almighty and perfectly good. It can be easily understood that the God has all capacity and capability, but why must the God be good?
Especially the God is the creator of this material world (including the human world) and the spirit world (including the afterlife). There are no laws or principles that put good above evil in the material world or the nature, or there are no concepts of good and evil in the material world or the nature. So, then why is the God perfectly good?
In addition, the matter between death and life seems to have nothing to do with the matter between good and evil. But the God who rules the matter between death and life is said to be perfectly good but not evil. Then, why must the God who is the creator of the material world and the nature be perfectly good but not tolerable to evil? How does the matter between life and death be related to the matter between good and evil?
Yet from the beginning it is said that the God is perfect. Perfection should mean including everything thinkable. So, true perfection should include imperfection. What is perfect should include imperfection or what denies perfection. Therefore, it can be understood that the God who embodies perfection should include imperfection. In other word as the God includes imperfection He is perfect or complete and total. Above this level of concepts, there should be heavenly perfect. At the level, there should be no matter between good and evil. Everything should be sacred there. Therefore, these issues should disappear in the domain of the God.
We are in the material world or the nature including the human world where life and death is a critical issue. Especially in the human world good and evil is a critical issue, too. But, when men die, they enter into the spirit world where good spirits are accepted in Heaven and evil spirits go to the hells. Good spirits may further be allowed to come closer to the domain of the God where even the concept between perfection and imperfection does not exist. Only what is sacred allowed there.
Anyway, we should not be afraid of death, since there is the afterlife. However, good spirits are allowed to be accepted in Haven to be given eternal life while evil spirits should go to the hells to be eventually destroyed. And, good spirits given eternal life should further try to come closer or reach the domain of the God. But, only elite angels may be allowed. What is the state of God's domain should be unknown to human beings, human souls, and human spirits. All we can do is to acknowledge the afterlife or the spirt world with Heaven and the hells, and choose and love good over evil, since goodness is the key to understanding the God.
If a builder of a great building gets mad, he would try to destroy the building after completion of the building or during building it. Seeing the great building with complete proportionality and wonderful design being destroyed and reduced to imperfect structure, people would think that such destruction is an act of evil. People would think that it is good to keep the building . So, the God who has created the spirit world, the material world, and the human world love these worlds to keep them integral and perfect, which should be called an act being good. Indeed, the creator God is only good in this context but not users of the building.
Yet, Satan still tries to harm the building or these worlds. Satan is mad in this context. He belongs to the worlds where imperfection is allowed to exist by the God. Satan has found money effective in his plot. Therefore, money becomes a source of evil. The more men get money, the more they follow Satan and hate the God. So, rich men are not accepted in Heaven. Satan richer than any man in terms of money cannot be accepted in Heaven. It is doomed to be finally destroyed in the hells of the spirit world.
Put simply, life and death, good and evil, and divinity and blasphemy can be fully understand by taking the domain of the God and the spirit world into account. In the human world, we have to be taught by the Lord Jesus Christ as we are partly products of the nature where there is full of imperfection.
Material science cannot lead us to the spirit world. But, faith and love should lead us to the truth. Poverty without money makes men closer to faith and love like early Christians. But, as living men cannot see the God, we have to enter into Heaven after death in the material world and our spirits there may be allowed to look up to the domain of the God. It must surely look good beyond the domain of good and evil.
John 2, King James Version
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.