More importantly, why would a perfect god even create to begin with? To be perfect would mean this god is complete, lacking in nothing. It would lack emotions, which would include any desire, and would be void of a personality, which would otherwise require a constant flux. I don't see any way a perfect god could even exist. If it does, it must be static. If there is a god, it would appear it is imperfect. — Crystanium
Imperfection isn't created; it is the corruption of something that was once perfect. In the case of the artist and the eraser, no new information was added, hence nothing imperfect was created. Rather, the painting became imperfect but was not created imperfect.Why? I cannot understand. — bahman
Tzimtzum - Self-Limitation
Creating Space
In the creation myth of ancient Judaic mysticism, God creates the universe by a process dubbed tzimtzum, which in Hebrew means a sort of stepping back to allow for there to be an Other, an Else, as in something or someone else. — Introduction to Kabbalah: The Creation Myth
I see that imperfection isn't created, it is caused in the senses that I have already explained. — Lone Wolf
The imperfection lies in the material world and the senses, the perefection lies in the metaphysical world and the mind and in God. — René Descartes
I'm not sure this is the case. We could maybe also describe perfection as the lack of imperfection. But perfection has no faults, and lacks nothing. So could we not say that things that are created are imperfect by nature of being created? — Mr Phil O'Sophy
If the painting is perfection, and it lacked nothing, then you could not go towards it and erase anything because that would mean it lacked you, therefore not being perfect. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
How could God create imperfection? — bahman
Imperfection isn't created; it is the corruption of something that was once perfect. In the case of the artist and the eraser, no new information was added, hence nothing imperfect was created. Rather, the painting became imperfect but was not created imperfect. — Lone Wolf
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