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    Challenges→The argument that God's being perfectly loving requires God to engage in the best kind of loving relationship with another is flawed.

    Holding that God has the character trait of being perfectly loving does not imply the action of perfectly loving, i.e., engaging in the best kind of loving relationship with another.

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    Character trait(as used in ethics)
    A consistent pattern in how someone tends to think, feel, or act that defines part of who they are—like being honest, patient, or kind.
    Character trait vs. action(the central distinction in this philosophical statement)
    A trait is something you are (like being kind), while an action is something you do (like helping someone); having the trait doesn't automatically mean you perform every possible action that matches it.
    Imply (in logic)(used to explain what does or doesn't follow from having a character trait)
    When one thing logically follows from another, or when having one thing necessarily means you must have another thing too.

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    Perfectly loving(used to describe a quality God may have)
    In philosophy, this refers to love in its ideal or ultimate form—the best possible way to love without any flaws or limitations.

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    One may object that this argument depends on an equivocation on the phrase “perfectly loving”. One who thinks that God is a perfect being must hold that God has the character trait of being perfectly loving, but this doesn’t seem to imply the action of perfectly loving (i.e. engaging in the best kind of loving relationship with another) (Lebens and Tuggy 2019).

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