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Classic perfect being theologians take ‘being perfect’ (or some careful variant thereof) to be conceptually necessary and sufficient for being God. I argue that this claim is false because being perfect is not conceptually necessary for being God. I rest my case on a simple thought experiment inspired by an alternative I developed to perfect being theology that I call “functional theology.” My findings, if correct, are a boon for theists since if it should turn out that there is no perfect being, there could still be a God.

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                    [givenName] => Jeanine
                    [affiliation] => University of Toledo, Ohio
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v11i2.2970
    [datePublished] => 2019-06-20
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/2970/version/628/2335
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Being Perfect is Not Necessary for Being God

Jeanine
University of Toledo, Ohio

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v11i2.2970

Abstract

Classic perfect being theologians take ‘being perfect’ (or some careful variant thereof) to be conceptually necessary and sufficient for being God. I argue that this claim is false because being perfect is not conceptually necessary for being God. I rest my case on a simple thought experiment inspired by an alternative I developed to perfect being theology that I call “functional theology.” My findings, if correct, are a boon for theists since if it should turn out that there is no perfect being, there could still be a God.

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