The Conception of Perfection

According to theism, God is morally perfect. For hundreds of years, theologians have had different opinions of the concept that God is morally perfect. The one thing that they all have in common is the idea that God is the greatest of all beings; God cannot be more morally perfect and complete in his nature.

According to theism, a morally perfect God is the only thing which existed in the beginning. Nothing else existed. God and only God created all matter and our universe. This he created "out of nothing", in Latin "ex nihilo." Our entire universe exists solely because God, himself, wants it to exist. It was a creation which was possible only because God wanted it to be so.

The question one can now ask is the following: If God, who is complete in his nature, was the only thing that existed in God's already complete or perfect existence, why did he create anything to begin with? It is difficult to understand how creation is possible not to mention necessary in an environment where God is already complete.

Does that mean that the most complete being can now be more complete? Were there deficiencies with the most perfect or complete being that would cause the most complete to want to create something else? If that is the case, one can certainly wonder, therefore, what theism means by saying that God is complete or perfect.

According to theism, everything that God creates is perfect or complete; God cannot have created anything otherwise because he is perfect. If that is correct, where is this perfection in the dreadful suffering which has always existed and still exists. What in this ultimate perfection has made suffering possible?

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