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Christians, your God cannot be Perfect.
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Christians, your God cannot be Perfect.
I have been told that God is Perfect and Good. Theologians call the degradation of Good, Evil. If you accept these premises then consider the following:

Any possible act by God must be less than Perfect, or less than Perfectly Good, and therefore Evil. Why? Because if only God is Perfect, then God cannot create anything Perfect like himself. Otherwise this other Perfect thing would have to be identical to God, and then we would have two Perfect Gods. Obviously, you reject that there can be two Perfect Gods. But if he can only create imperfections, such as Universes and human beings, then in what way is that being Perfect? We must conclude then that a being who can only create imperfections is himself imperfect. Therefore, God is not Perfect nor Perfectly Good.

Edit: To clarify any possible confusion, I mean Perfect in the Anselmian sense, which many Christians enthusiastically endorse, including Christianity's Philosopher-In-Chief, William Craig, who says: "To say that I tacitly endorse Anselmian Perfect Being Theology is an understatement.. I am an enthusiastic proponent.. I see the conception of God as the greatest conceivable being as one of the guides for systematic theology’s formulation of the doctrine of God."
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Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Mudhammam - January 8, 2014 at 10:35 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Drich - January 9, 2014 at 1:07 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Esquilax - January 9, 2014 at 4:38 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by xr34p3rx - January 9, 2014 at 5:15 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Drich - January 10, 2014 at 2:01 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by xr34p3rx - January 10, 2014 at 3:08 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Mudhammam - January 9, 2014 at 8:51 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Drich - January 9, 2014 at 9:10 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Angrboda - January 9, 2014 at 1:19 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Mudhammam - January 9, 2014 at 5:10 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Angrboda - January 9, 2014 at 6:10 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Mudhammam - January 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Drich - January 9, 2014 at 9:05 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Chad32 - January 9, 2014 at 1:30 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Cinjin - January 10, 2014 at 12:05 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Mudhammam - January 10, 2014 at 12:07 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Ryantology - January 10, 2014 at 2:52 am
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Drich - January 10, 2014 at 12:03 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Esquilax - January 10, 2014 at 2:27 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Chad32 - January 10, 2014 at 12:15 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by truthBtold - January 10, 2014 at 2:05 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Chad32 - January 10, 2014 at 2:14 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by truthBtold - January 10, 2014 at 2:33 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Chad32 - January 10, 2014 at 3:24 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by truthBtold - January 10, 2014 at 3:32 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by Chad32 - January 10, 2014 at 3:38 pm
RE: Christians, your God cannot be Perfect. - by truthBtold - January 10, 2014 at 3:42 pm

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