--God doesn’t have any flaws, and there’s no way a being could be better than God. --Trying to make God more of something winds up making Him less elsewhere and overall. --God is a totality of attributes, not a particular attribute. --All of His major attributes (holiness, goodness, mercy, justice, e.g.) are things which He holds to their utmost possible degree. --But I think there’s a better way to think of God’s perfection than having certain attributes more fully than anyone else. It’s to think of God as being completely unneedy. --In other words, He is completely complete. --There is nothing God does not already possess in His Being that would improve Him or make Him any better than He already is. --There’s nothing missing, so to speak. --Keeping this in mind will prevent you from going off into all sorts of errors. For instance, God does not need humans. Instead, being completely satisfied in Himself for all of eternity, He creates us as a way of sharing His goodness with other beings, even though they are inferior to Him. --This means that God is not more or less glorified when He has people with Him than not. --But people often forget this when they say God created us because He needed our worship or our love. Oh, how small a god that horrible heresy depicts. --Sometimes it goes the other direction where people say God made us so He would have someone He could love. No, in the Trinity, God had a perfect community of other-love for all of eternity long before we ever showed up. --We don’t exist because God was filling some need. We exist because He was giving away gifts out of His perfect self-sufficiency.
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