Single Idea 6291

[catalogued under 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good]

Full Idea

Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God.

Gist of Idea

No one is good except God

Source

Jesus (reports [c.32]), quoted by St Matthew - 01: Gospel of St Matthew 19.17

Book Reference

'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.467


A Reaction

This remark raises the problem that if God is good, there must be some separate moral standard by which he can be judged good. What is that standard? It is related to the problem of whether Plato's Form of the Beautiful is itself beautiful.