(October 30, 2019 at 10:08 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Why can't a perfect being have motives, is the obvious question. Imagine the perfect human being. They would still have motivations. Human motivations, in all likelihood. Just like a god's. Its clearly possible in concept for a perfect being to have motivations...having motivations is not remarkable. Perfection does not rule out motivation.
A perfect god having fallen human motivations, is an issue, though. Even if it's a real perfect god that really exists. Especially if it's a real god that really exists. Theres a superpowered human-alike pervert living in the sky.........
A motivation is a desire. The presence of a desire necessitates a lack. A lack requires incompleteness. A perfect Being would, by definition, be complete.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
