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Is God Incomplete?

Publication Month: 
July 2002
Author - First Name: 
John B.
Author - Last Name: 
Cobb, Jr.
Question: 
If God is evolving and changing, is God incomplete?

Dr. Cobb's Response

In one sense, the answer must certainly be Yes. To be complete, one might well argue, one must be completed, finished, unsusceptible of any change. In process theology, we teach that this is not the way to understand God.

But "complete" has other meanings. The first meaning listed in my dictionary is: "Having all necessary parts; entire; whole." By this meaning God is surely complete. God is lacking no "necessary part". God is entire and whole. Another meaning is "Thorough, consummate, perfect." In this sense too, God is complete.

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