Hmm, I have to disagree with your concept of the Christian God. Though, I can certainly see where you got it. After all, there is a specific example in the Jewish text of YHVH changing his mind. If you are never wrong, would you change your mind?
I personally think it's a simple matter of nouns and verbs. Perfection is also a verb, as is love. I think too many people confuse PERFECT with PERFECTION, one being a journey and the other a (possibly unreachable) destination.
Of course, I realize that few would share my view, but I have learned to be OK with that. I have had to learn. (the hard way)
Aquinas would disagree, to wit... we call that perfect which lacks nothing of the mode of its perfection. - Summa Theologica, Question 4
As does the new testament, as quoted in Summa Theologica... "Be you perfect as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48)
I think your concept is much more in tune with the Pagan and Heathen conception of deity than that of Christian theology, and by pointing out the concept that God does, in fact, change his mind, you have rather put the lie to that same theology. That few would share your view only indicates to me that the many have come to (or been led to) an irrational conclusion.
I wonder if Aquinas meant mode as in "status" which would agree with Matthew, or mode as in "method", which really would agree with my idea. Either is a proper definition of the word mode. Too bad I don't know enough foreign language to figure that one out.
You know, I don't worry about whose theology mine is most like any more, it's just mine. Trying to figure out where mine fit in with the rest of the world just kept me in too much turmoil.
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I personally think it's a simple matter of nouns and verbs. Perfection is also a verb, as is love. I think too many people confuse PERFECT with PERFECTION, one being a journey and the other a (possibly unreachable) destination.
Of course, I realize that few would share my view, but I have learned to be OK with that. I have had to learn. (the hard way)
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we call that perfect which lacks nothing of the mode of its perfection. - Summa Theologica, Question 4
As does the new testament, as quoted in Summa Theologica...
"Be you perfect as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48)
I think your concept is much more in tune with the Pagan and Heathen conception of deity than that of Christian theology, and by pointing out the concept that God does, in fact, change his mind, you have rather put the lie to that same theology. That few would share your view only indicates to me that the many have come to (or been led to) an irrational conclusion.
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You know, I don't worry about whose theology mine is most like any more, it's just mine. Trying to figure out where mine fit in with the rest of the world just kept me in too much turmoil.
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