[Serious] The Story

[Neo-Scholastic]

At a cosmic level if God created a Perfect Being it would also be God. And since there can be only one God it follows that it cannot be done. The notion that creation is imperfect is embedded in the narrative. There's a snake in the garden.

So something can't be perfect unless it's omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent? Ordinarily, perfect means 'without flaws'. I wouldn't say not being all-powerful is a flaw.

Edit: Sorry for the double post.

I am using the word perfect the same way scholastics and some classical pagan philosophers would have....in the absolute sense that only applies to the All, or One. Barbasol may be the 'perfect' for its intended purpose as an inexpensive
and effective shaving cream but that is not the sense theologically.