RE: Theists: What do you mean when you say that God is 'perfect'?
November 30, 2017 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 6:54 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 30, 2017 at 4:01 pm)SteveII Wrote: No, no no. You are putting words in my mouth to fit your stupid premise. Where did I say God was imperfect?
I didn't put words in your mouth just because you're unable to recognize that what you said entailed it. You said that God was lacking something. That means that he wasn't self-sufficent, which is a flaw/imperfection, which means he isn't perfect.
I never suggested you literally used those exact words, but I understood what you said actually entailed. You can call that putting words in your mouth all you want, but who cares what precise words you used when what I said was correct. What you said means that God is imperfect.
You don't have to literally say the words "God is imperfect" to be saying that God is imperfect. There's a use/mention distinction which is another distinction that you don't seem to recognize. When I say that you are saying X that is not the same thing as saying that you are saying "X".
It's just like Neo's shit about how Aquinas didn't say "Therefore God" just because he didn't literally use those exact two words. Even though that was what Aquinas was saying. There's more than one sense of "say".
