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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
This does not follow. Parents are of the same type and order as their children. Eru was not (putting it mildly). The same rules don't apply.
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So Eru operates by different rules? There are
two moral codes - the one Eru works by & the one He imposes on His children? Eru can kill whichever of His children he wishes & that is 'Good', but if His children kill each other that is 'bad'?
So, which moral code is objectively Right? Of course, in our world, this diference does not exist - Jesus tells his disciples to be like their Father in Heaven - ie to obey the same moral & behavioural standards God follows. In Middle-earth it must be different. Eru can do as He likes &
whatever He does, even if it is against the laws & rules he lays down for His children, is 'Good' by definition, simply because He does it?
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If you are going to accuse Eru of being a murderer, then it started waaaaaaaay back at the beginning when he decided that the Atani were going to experience death and leave the world.
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No - because mortality is part of the Human condition. There's a difference between creating beings who are mortal & who die as a consequence of being what they are, & deliberately taking the life of someone before their time.