J.P. Moreland - Is God Perfect?

What does it mean for God to be perfect? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Perfectly free? Did God create the 'perfect world'? That'd be hard to believe.

[MiaQuacko]

I think we are beings derived only from his Grace.. I don’t think God really needs us, but his love is alive in that it manifests for others to breathe from it

[bigduggieface]

J.P. Moreland has perfectly wasted all of our time.

[elliast]

honestly the only way we can actually try to comprehend God is through analogies and metaphors. we can’t put limitations to a being beyond our comprehension. its nice looking at other people’s perspectives on God tho.

[timwilliams]

Who said a god or gods needs or wants worship if one does exist?

[kevinlee]

Lemme ruin the game for you all. You reading this... you are in fact God. God is infinite and it's split itself in infinite forms to experience itself. Even to the point of making other gods out of itself. There are no others here only God! We have all existed before we were here! We choose to forget. If you don't believe me practice meditation! God lives within us all!!! I mean this literally. I met it. We all can!❤

[Prince-clyh]

God was perfect and all. But what we didn’t know was that seeing Him being so perfect and amazing, he lacks the love and affection He needed/wanted. We need to love Him back with all our heart, mind, and soul as how he lovingly created us 💎🌸

[Murdersville]

I love how he brushes off why humans can do things that God can't, oh yes that's due to the failings of humans. But surely all powerful should be able to do everything that humans can do, not only do it but do it better.

[bonnieuk]

The problem of suffering from a Christian perspective ( not just human, but the sheer brutality of nature) is one that I've never heard a satisfactory answer to.

[sorinichim]

If God is perfect, why He made us, the peak of His creation, imperfect?

[radiophodity]

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]

The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
Psalm 145:9 NIV

[ryeclansen]

Why is god a "he"? Maybe it's an "it" like gravity or a quantum mechanical entity or something?

[robertvisser]

To be fair, this interview (and others like it) is not about god existing or not. The premise is: assuming the christian god exists and you believe he is perfect etc., what does that mean. For those who do not believe in god(s) or believe in a different god, this video is at best uninteresting.

[rudysimoens]

The only excuse that "god" has for making us imperfect is that he does not exist!

[sngscratcher]

A meaningless conversation based on speculation/nonsense.

[alanpena]

What he say from the 0:45 to the minute 0:59? Someone help me by making a small transcript?Pd: Sorry for my english :(

[teresabonita]

What if God is not at all the way you think he is? How can you put a limitation on a creator he does whatever the hell he wants. Maybe he even losses or has made many mistakes. I read the Bible but yeah I just wanna say maybe he is not perfect and not all powerful after all he let ppl crucify him. WTH kinda being allows that. It says he take vengeance. Think about all the things this being does. Some people call him bipolar could it be that people told him how to be and thus that's how he is but in actually if we just let that being be him maybe it would be better. Just God being God.

[TheGuiltsOfUs]

There is no God, so who cares if he is perfect or not. Absurd question!

[jrcurious]

This discussion is based on an erroneous ontological conception. While objects and persons do have attributes or qualities, goodness is not an intrinsic attribute of anything. Goodness or evil is a value, an axiological entity that depends on its being on a relational reality of two beings, in which one can consider the other good, if the net effect of one increases the well-being or happiness of the other. Therefore, --aside from the issue of God's existence, not under discussion here--the concept of God's perfection, or for that matter any perfection, is absent in any real life situation. As logical positivists would put it, perfection is not a concept that describes any real entity encountered in human experience. The only accessible experience of perfection would refer to a set of intrinsic qualities of one object that satisfy the well-being conditions of another. And if we project these concepts towards the metaphysical or transcendent world of deities and perfection, we would have to conclude that God fails miserably in his goodness, because no rational being in this universe actually experiences happiness. Instead of postulating infinitely perfect gods and tormenting ourselves with "best possible worlds", our energies would be very best utilized if used to fulfill a much better world.

[TheGlobuleReturns]

God grew in empathy via the martyring of his own son? It’s hilarious that people still talk so seriously about this stuff.

[CUMBICA]

0:45 "I can run a 100 yard dash. He can't." LOL Oh my. Oh my. So god can't run?? But isn't he almighty?