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    Having aims and desires implies privation — a lack of tha... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God cannot be pleased or displeased by anything.

    Having aims and desires implies privation — a lack of that which is aimed at or desired until it is obtained.

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    A being capable of being pleased or displeased must have aims and desires.Any being subject to privation and lack cannot be considered perfect or divine.God cannot be pleased or displeased by anything.God, as a perfect being, cannot be subject to privation or lack.

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    The philosopher opens his presentation with a sharply negative appraisal of the presuppositions underlying the king's dream and offers a brief critical analysis to explain why he rejects each one. Specifically, he denies that God is the kind of being who is either pleased or displeased about anything, has knowledge of particular persons, actions, or events, or even can be regarded as the “Creator” of human beings, unless one understands this in purely metaphorical terms. What warrants these conf

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