On 3 December 2013 09:43, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/2/2013 9:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 02 Dec 2013, at 13:39, Samiya Illias wrote: > > I agree that God is consistent. In my understanding, God is perfect in > every possible meaning of the word. > > > Is God perfect for the children in Syria? (Easy question on an hard > subject) > > Here, you might hope that God will succeed in consolating them and that > everything is OK. But that state of mind might make us accept more easily > the tragedies, and that fatalism ... might be fatal for the incarnation of > the good. > > The question, put in a another way, who are you to judge God's perfection? > > > I doubt that perfection is even a coherent concept. > > I believe "perfection" is used as an "attribute" in the ontological argument for the existence of God. (Which looks suspiciously like a circular argument, imho.)
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