Even if the analogy were apt, he pointed out, the most one could infer from it would be a superior craftsman, not an omnipotent and perfect deity.
By contrast, if one wants to explain the mixed state of the world by the hypothesis that the creator of the world was an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect deity, one needs to postulate the existence of additional, morally significant properties that lie beyond our ken, and ones, moreover, that are so distributed that the mixed appearance does not correspond to what is really the case.
All I am asking is that they acknowledge that a perfect deity had no hand in writing the Bible.
In the trilogy's first installment, however, the core of Mr. Pullman's philosophy, which involves humanity's confrontation of a less-than-perfect deity, is far less apparent than is his taste for complicated adventure.
Often celebrities are depicted as near-perfect deities or as trash, but in Peyton's works they are treated as artists, popular because they influence and inspire us.
We all unanimously teach…one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in deity and perfect in humanity…in two natures, without being mixed, transmuted, divided, or separated.
Chalcedon declared: We all unanimously teach…one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in deity and perfect in humanity…in two natures, without being mixed, transmuted, divided, or separated.
The doctrine was further defined by the Council of Chalcedon (ad 451), at which it was declared that Jesus was perfect in deity and in humanity and that the identity of each nature was preserved in the person of Jesus Christ.
The Council of Chalcedon (451) finally settled the dispute between Antioch and Alexandria by drawing from each, declaring: We all unanimously teach…one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in deity and perfect in humanity…in two natures, without being mixed, transmuted, divided, or separated.
In their work, they manipulate reality using the saccharine artifice of Technicolor blue skies, haloes of light and models as perfect as deities, with airbrush-smooth skin and strangely peaceful expressions.
Unlike the degrading idolatry of the pagan submission to arbitrary and immoral deities, Christians, he asserted, revere one perfect and eternal divinity whose threefold self-expression is not polytheistic.
