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    The identification of perfect being with changelessness p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God cannot change (God is immutable).

    The identification of perfect being with changelessness presupposes a Parmenidean-Platonic ontology in which becoming is inferior to static being.

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    • 1.Change involves dependency on external causes, implying imperfection and lack of self-sufficiency characteristic of perfect being.
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    • 2.Temporal becoming implies potential and incompleteness; perfect being must be fully actual with no unrealized potentialities.
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    • 3.The Parmenidean principle that only being truly exists remains logically compelling: becoming seems to require non-being.
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    • 1.Immutability appears incompatible with omniscience: a timeless being cannot have knowledge of temporal, contingent events as they occur.
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    • 2.Creative activity (a perfection) essentially involves temporal becoming; a static being cannot create or respond to anything.
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    • 3.Modern physics and philosophy reject the assumption that becoming is ontologically inferior; change and process are fundamental features of reality.
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