>But what is it with changelessness that the Greeks were so obsessed by?
>
>Change, to them, implied IMPERFECTION/INCOMPLETION, and God, being most
>perfect, would need to be CHANGELESS. Since He is PERFECT. But how then are
>we to be PERFECT like our Father in Heaven in the Biblical sense? I believe
>the real perfection lies in CHESED... covenant-faithfulness/love.... that's
>the Bible's idea of perfection.
This is also a root of some of the purported opposition of evolution to
divine involvement. If God knew what He was doing, why would the things He
created need to change? Why did He not make them right the first time?
This, however, presupposes both that the method of creation was not a
process and that invariability is a good thing. For organisms in a
changing environment, it is not good to be changeless.
David C.
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