[Serious] The Story

[John 6IX Breezy]

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.

I agree. It seems to me that perfection is a measure of how closely a thing is to it's intended or ideal type. A perfect circle is perfect insofar as it conforms to whatever specifications a circle must meet, even though it is nothing like a square.

Now, I would assume that when Genesis called each creative act good, even exceedingly good, that it implies that creation was perfect insofar as it aligned with God's intended outcome.

Perhaps this is an example where the overarching narrative matters. Neo treated the snake in the garden as a flaw, or imperfection. However, within the SDA narrative the snake is an outsider, an intruder. It is Satan, and that was the beginning of bringing the heavenly war to Earth.

But we can see from Neo's comments that there is perhaps a different narrative that people believe, in which the snake was unintentionally created. Or perhaps it was intentional for the sake of avoiding perfection.