A perfect god?
In the bible, Matthew 5:48, it says something to the effect of "be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect."
So then according to Christianity god is a perfect being. To be perfect implies that you have no needs, wants, desires, flaws, or any need to change at all from your state of perfection. Therefore god would have no need, desire, or any other reason to create us. But we do exist, therefore a perfect god cannot. Obviously a non-perfect god could still exist, but then the bible must be soundly rejected as the word of god, since it contains a mistake about god's nature(among countless other mistakes and contradictions but let's focus on this for now).
This argument probably has been made many times but it's been on my mind. Welcoming discussion.
Well I clearly do not believe that.
A perfect god wouldn't have a need to do things that please him. What are you not understanding about perfection? He would already be perfectly pleased, perfectly happy, perfectly balanced in all ways. And since he is eternal right? He would have been eternally perfect. No need to create us, but you and I do exist, therefore a perfect god cannot.
When they say "perfect," they don't even know what they mean by it. They are just lathering on superlatives, which is the nature of religion designing, religion believing, and religion indoctrination. You just mime it after you've heard it. It's the the thing to do in the holy club, whichever variety of it you are in.
