Plato's Problem
If God does not change...and is perfect....How does his incarnation and his life of humanity coorelate with his perfection and changlessness? Perfection signifies perfect self-sufficiency. He was not perfectly self-sufficient in all stages of his humanity. Perfection denotes perfect self-satisfaction. How can one love someone perfectly without sacrificing self-satisfaction? Can God experience joy, sorrow, anger...do these not require a change and are they not traits of imperfection? Plato struggled with these concepts. Building theology on deductive reasoning is not always a wise thing to do. Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. I think that the fact we can't understand in no way diminishes his deity, rather, it reaffirms it.
PLATO
If God does not change...and is perfect....How does his incarnation and his life of humanity coorelate with his perfection and changlessness? Perfection signifies perfect self-sufficiency. He was not perfectly self-sufficient in all stages of his humanity. Perfection denotes perfect self-satisfaction. How can one love someone perfectly without sacrificing self-satisfaction? Can God experience joy, sorrow, anger...do these not require a change and are they not traits of imperfection? Plato struggled with these concepts. Building theology on deductive reasoning is not always a wise thing to do. Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. I think that the fact we can't understand in no way diminishes his deity, rather, it reaffirms it.
PLATO
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