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Divine Perfection and Free Will

Why these two ideas are incompatible

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Steven Colborne
Jul 10, 2025
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We intuitively know that God, in His essence and in His nature, is perfect. In fact, an appropriate definition of the word ‘perfection’ might well be ‘God’. What it means for God to be perfect is that He is entirely whole, complete within Himself and lacking absolutely nothing.

One might consider the divine attribute of omnipresence in relation to what I…

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