(September 28, 2022 at 9:38 am)Angrboda Wrote:(September 27, 2022 at 10:43 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I think it is about why the short cut happened.
That seems to require an inherent nature ala the soul. Not sure what I think about that, though it runs contrary to my general thoughts, but it's worth pondering.
IMHO imperfection is the cost of creation. What I mean is that since the classical God is defined as perfection then anything other that God is imperfect. God could not create perfection because anything perfect is God and there can only be one God. So..."The Lord is our God, the Lord is One"...means literally one...that which is singular, whole and complete. Unless finite creatures who are limited and thus prone to error and circumstances. This is the fallen condition...there is always a snake in the garden and it could be no other way if we are to be anything at all. At least in Christianity, we believe that God remedies the fallen condition by participating in it. Anyway, my point is similar to Liebnitz that this is the best of all possible worlds, except that I believe all possible worlds imperfectly manifest the Infinite Perfection.
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