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    Resemblance to God is a necessary condition for goodness ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Being excellent as a finite thing consists in resembling God in a way that could serve God as a reason for loving that thing.

    Resemblance to God is a necessary condition for goodness in finite creatures.

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    The resemblance requirement identifies a necessary condition for being good, but it does not yet give us a sufficient condition. This is because there are ways in which finite creatures might resemble God that would not be suitable to the type of creature they are. For example, if God were all-knowing, then the belief, “I am all-knowing,” would be a suitable belief for God to have. In God, such a belief—because true—would be part of God’s perfection. However, as neither you nor I are all-knowing

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