(April 12, 2023 at 12:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(April 11, 2023 at 8:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Personally, I accept that creation must be imperfect since God alone can be perfect. But one does wonder why it must still be so miserable.
Right, lol? There's a hell of alot of mileage between less miserable and perfect. Best possible world is actually a favorite of mine.
Maybe this really is as good as it gets, given a gods particular abilities. Some problems, in this view, are simply intractable...even for a god. That does raise a question. Why don't we worship the very best people just as we worship gods? Whatever it is they cant do, whatever supposed failing they have that makes them unsuitable for worship (especially to the monotheistic and anti-idolatrist eye) are simply not their responsibility and beyond any reasonable expectation. So what gives? Why worship gods despite their fundamental inabilities while rejecting the worship of man for the same reason?
If a perfect creation is an impossibility, then I would argue "so is a perfect god".
