THEO 24842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Monism, Microsoft Powerpoint, General Revelation
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The bible can"t allow god to be static. So he can"t be perfect, because perfect is static because there"s nowhere else to go when you reach perfection; you either strive for perfection or pull away from it. Impassible = unable to change; unable to suffer. And jesus suffered so jesus/god was passable. But the greeks thought that he was impassible. Gnostic - series of early christians who were fundamentally greek in their basis. When we talk about god being perfect have to talk about the theological definition of perfect, which is holy. God is biblically perfect (matthew 5:48, uses the greek word for perfection which also means complete) but not perfect by the. Jesus was human so couldn"t be omnipresent but jesus was fully god, so how does that work. Omnipotent = all powerful - not this, as the greeks would understand this. Because god"s being is faithful and only good, he can only do good, not evil.
