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- God cannot be improved upon because there is nothing better or more significant than Him (Malachi 3:6). Therefore, when it comes to divine attributes such as justice, mercy, and love, God’s standards for them are perfect for us as well.
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Oct 1, 2013 · A perfectly good being has the best desires that a being can have, and exhibits the best traits of character, and acts in an unsurpassably excellent way. This practical excellence is, furthermore, typically understood as moral excellence (Morris 1989b, p. 26; Wierenga 1989, p. 202).
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Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), in two works, the Monologion and the Proslogion(1077–78), developed the idea of God as the most perfect being, as a way of developing a systematic understanding of the godhead. As the God “than which there is not a greater,” he is the object of our service and worship. From this, we get “perfect being theology.” An...
Divine perfection in later Reformed theology was understood as the corollary of divine necessity and independence, his uncreatedness. God does not need anything; he is underived, complete. Perfection is not among God’s attributes, but each of these can be understood as perfections, for they are complete. John Owen strikes this same note of the conn...
There is a weakness of Anselm’s method in the Proslogion, a longer and more elaborate book than the Monologion. His key question is “is it better to be … (“x”) … rather than not”? If the answer is “yes,” then the gap is filled with a perfect-making attribute. Some of the answers to questions are a little unexpected. For example, that it is better f...
But this is not a good method unless we have a developed, agreed upon way of determining what the idea of God is. Anselm himself thought of such theology as a discipline, of developing one’s thinking of the Biblical assertions about what and who God is like. In his hands, it is not a self-indulgence, creating the “God I want”, but of thinking hard ...
In Scripture, God and his works are said to be perfect (Job 11:7; Ps. 18:30; 19:7; Matt. 5:48). When in Scripture men and women are said to be perfect, this is as a reflection of God’s own perfection, as in Christ’s command, “Be perfect as God is perfect,” referring to a creaturely, derived perfection. In some cases, “perfect” is used in a differen...
In our modern culture it is more usual to think of God’s perfection as his power and goodness exercised in the achieving of pleasurable and life-fulfilling human states. In modernity, God is above all things “omnibenevolent” in respect to his creation, especially in the case of those who are created in his image. As we have seen, God bound himself ...
Nov 20, 2018 · Philosophers often describe God as “perfect being”—a being that possesses all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent, among other qualities.
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Jul 30, 2024 · Scripture often refers to God’s moral perfection as his righteousness. And the central question it addresses is how God, in his perfect righteousness (sinless perfection), can be reconciled to unrighteous (sinful) humans without becoming unrighteous himself.
Mar 12, 2024 · Some argue that God’s perfection is an essential part of his nature, while others question the very concept of divine perfection. Let’s explore some of the theological and philosophical perspectives on this topic.
Mar 11, 2019 · If God is the most perfect, supreme being, infinite and incomprehensible, then certain perfect-making attributes must be true of him. Perfections like aseity, simplicity, immutability, and eternity shield God from being crippled by creaturely limitations.
Is God “Perfect Being”? Yoram Hazony Philosophers often describe God as “perfect being”—a being that possesses all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, per-fectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent, among other qualities.
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