If God is good and God is loving what is the evidence? This is all about evidence. I don’t want to see any scriptures because they are not evidence.
Look around you in this world. What evidence do you see that would indicate that a good/loving God exists? I am trying to be objective about this rather than being influenced by my own feelings and life experiences which do not constitute evidence.
Hi Trail
I think you have to be more specific in regards to your question or phrase it differently. Reason being that, if you do not specify or define what you mean with "good" and "loving" anything really goes.
For instance,
"It is good to not kill"... therefore that is evidence of God being good, because not everyone kills. However I think you would agree that it wouldn't really be considered very useful evidence. Unless we establish or agree that
"not killing" is in fact good.
And we can't do that unless we agree or establish some sort of common ground for what we are measuring against. That is why some atheists will argue that for instance "Human wellbeing" as common ground for morality is good.
So if
"Wellbeing" is what we measure against, clearly killing someone would be considered bad. Now this has to be understood rather loosely and it is often very poorly defined what exactly is meant by "Wellbeing", or that it is assumed that we as humans can agree on some common understanding of this.
For me personally, I don't believe that good and evil exists, but that it is purely a subjective opinion, and good and evil is simply placeholders for what one personally consider beneficial or not beneficial in regards to what you personally believe, which will often align with whatever culture or society one is raised in, so therefore "Wellbeing" is also subjective and the assumption that we can arrive or agree on some common ground for what "Wellbeing" is, seems to be nothing more than wishful thinking or to vague to establish a moral basis on.
Christians or Muslims will obviously or at least in most cases, say that the Bible/Quran is the common ground, because of God. Obviously as we know, this causes some problems because of some of the verses doesn't really seem to value humans equally. But nonetheless it is something that can be measured against.
