(September 18, 2013 at 4:43 pm)John V Wrote:(September 18, 2013 at 4:11 pm)max-greece Wrote: Perhaps it might be easier then to see if we can find agreement on things that indicate imperfection.Malicious is the only one I would agree with, and even then we'd need to agree on its definition.
Would you agree with me that vengeful, proud, wrathful, vain, impulsive and malicious are characteristics that would qualify as imperfections and therefore could not belong to a perfect being, by definition?
It does seem to follow that a non-omniscient God could be surprised by the behavior of humans (and maybe other things) and have an emotional reaction to our deeds. That resolves the problem of why the God of the OT seems so surprised at us so many times. I alway thought it was odd that he would get angry over us doing something he knew we were going to do a trilion times infiinity squared years ago.