Plato and his school tackled this endlessly via their spheres of emanation and religions by having someone pop up as just being bad. A simple question with a potential simple answer, but I'm curious as to what others think.
A simple question: How does/can imperfection arise from perfection?
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No takers? Not all that surprising really, in that case I'll keep the answer occulted. And do remember that the word occult simply means hidden, all the other nonsense is just exactly that.
Good lord - I tend to avoid Religion on here because, well, I'm afraid what I'll read. You're testing my memory of freshman year in high school (that would be 1971). Back then we covered history, well, chronologically - lol. So, Plato came up about Christmas break I would guess and never to be thought of after midterm exams. I want to say it is something about archetypes as perfection but creation came about by bringing order from the disorder inherent in the reality of materials or matter and so would always fall short. Something like that, right? Do you grade on a curve?
asimpleman59
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Well: entropy. The heat-death of the universe. Sadness. Shame. Free will?
Off the top of my head.
Off the top of my head.
Gothyy
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Not sure if this answer suffice, but relating to logical fallacies when considering multiple gods, there can never be such thing as 2 perfect necessary beings. Why? Because 2 things can't be perfect because they observe the same qualities of perfection, ergo that collapses to just being 1 being. If you had any differentiations that would mean at least one possesses an inferior quality and therefore not perfect.
I am saying this to show that it's impossible for a perfect being to arise from another perfect being, so we can cut that branch of for this discussion.
if you subscribe to absolute divine theory, then we can rule out any interpretation of "imperfect arising from perfection" being that a piece of imperfection was taken out of perfection, since God is indivisible.
I hope this can help
note: I can't recall the fallacy with there being 2 non-perfect gods, but that's not relative for this discussion. If you're interested LMK
I am saying this to show that it's impossible for a perfect being to arise from another perfect being, so we can cut that branch of for this discussion.
if you subscribe to absolute divine theory, then we can rule out any interpretation of "imperfect arising from perfection" being that a piece of imperfection was taken out of perfection, since God is indivisible.
I hope this can help
note: I can't recall the fallacy with there being 2 non-perfect gods, but that's not relative for this discussion. If you're interested LMK