Something Old

The following piece is something that I wrote about a year and a half ago, and I am posting as I originally wrote it. It really doesn't have a grand conclusion or exhortation; it is merely a contemplation.

Another thought: The perfection of man v. the perfection of God.
Man can never be perfect in the way that God is perfect, for we will throughout eternity be learning and growing in our knowledge of the perfection of God. God's perfection is of an eternal, infinite and immutable way. His perfection cannot be improved, for it is complete. Our "perfection" is merely the making holy of the finite. We cannot attain God's perfection for we have not his aseity. That which is, is. But that which is becoming, having been generated by that which is being, can never become being, for it has been becoming. Therefore, throughout eternity, we will continue to rise in knowledge and maturity and praise for our Lord, but shall never find an end to that growth.

Is that which started as becoming destined to always remain becoming?

Can that which is finite ever become infinite, or would that be such a change of nature that would destroy the finite being? The finite has no capacity for infinity.

And so, a creature that has experienced becoming can never be truly being, for the creature which experiences becoming is finite. For there is no change to the infinite, for there is no limit to infinite, and if there is no limit to infinite, there is nothing to be added to infinite. To have infinitude would necessarily encompass all other attributes associated with deity. Therefore, the finite can never be being for there is, by necessity, change and becoming associated with the finite creature. Finititude necessarily excludes infinitude.

And, God could never allow man to have his same perfection and aseity and infinity, etc, for then there would be a multitude of beings possessing equal power and ability to will and do. This is logically contradictory, for there can only be one perfectly infinite being, for there can be none with ability to contravene him, for he would no longer be infinite in person, character, power and will.