Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39203290-20190420172346/@comment-24729606-20190422184218

That is what I'm saying that a perfect being either would be able to give themselves any power or might already have every power, ability, and so on. As for how this is different from absolute existence that is both fairly simple and fairly complex and in both cases because both perfection and absolute existence are absolute powers (the latter by name and the former by association). Perfection just means that one is without flaw, weaknesses, or vulnerability. but a perfect being would only have an absolute existence if they had always been perfect (a claim not even creator or Protogenoi deities can satisfactorily make) and had always existed. Absolute existence just means that one’s existence cannot be halted, stopped, removed, or terminated within the confines of the universe in question. It is possible that a perfect being might also be in possession of absolute existence (in fact it seems probable if only because were it not so such a being would not be truly perfect) but I personally contend that a perfect being is an impossibility just as anything absolute, limitless, infinite, or eternal are impossibilities. That does not mean that this necessary must be how things actually are just that I have no reason nor evidence to believe it so. Were I to be confronted with strong evidence that this believe has been held in error I would require time to revise my position but revise it I would. After all to hold one’s own viewpoint or anything as immutable is about as lazy a standpoint as anything else believed with fanatical devotion.