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    It is not the case that Resemblance to God is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a finite creature's goodness.

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    • 1.Euthyphro-style dilemmas show that grounding creaturely goodness in resemblance to God makes goodness arbitrary unless God's nature is itself constrained by independent norms.
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    • 2.If independent norms constrain what counts as divine perfection, those norms—not resemblance to God—are the genuine necessary condition for creaturely goodness.
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    • 3.Therefore, resemblance to God is at most a derivative marker of goodness, not a necessary condition that does genuine explanatory work.
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    • 1.On a Thomistic account, creaturely goodness is constituted by actualizing the form proper to one's kind, not by resemblance to a separate divine standard.
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    • 2.If goodness for each kind of creature is fully specified by its own formal nature, resemblance to God is neither necessary nor sufficient but merely correlative to goodness.
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    • 1.There are ways in which finite creatures might resemble God that would not be suitable to the type of creature they are.
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    • 2.A belief such as 'I am all-knowing' is a perfection in God because it is true of God, but the same belief in a finite creature who is not all-knowing would not be good.
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    • 3.A necessary condition that admits of counterexamples cannot also be a sufficient condition.
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