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all-good en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Purely good; having no evil.
    • If all we knew was that God is all-good, but we did not know that rape is bad, then we would not know whether or not God could command rape. 2009, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Morality Without God?:
    • The point of this chapter is that there may be something within certain individuals that predisposes them to be attracted to and to accept a religion built around a patriarchal theology and characterized by an apocalyptic view of the world and the splitting of humanity into all-good and all-bad camps, leading to prejudice and crusades against outsiders. 2008, James Jones, Blood That Cries Out From the Earth:
    • If God is all-good and all-powerful, why does evil exist, and why do disasters happen? If God is all-good, then God cannot desire bad things to happen or evil to exist. 2009, Steven L McKenzie, How to Read the Bible: