Perfection and existence of imperfect being

[STT]

Perhaps your view of perfection requires some additional consideration.

First, change being the “result of a tendency toward an end” is chokingly narrow and fatalist and I see no particular reason to be bound to that definition. I’m a rather big fan of the old Greek philosophy that change is simply an observable displacement. It can be spatial, temporal - whatever you like. I think the only binding rule is that it must be observable so as to verifiably encounter change.

So to you things and changes are for vain? No growth, no maturity, etc.

And the notion that change denotes a departure from perfection is pretty easy to dispute. A perfect caterpillar becomes a perfect butterfly - it changes and perfection is retained the whole way through. A perfect seed becomes a perfect sapling. I could go on ad nauseam.

So what thing changes when a caterpillar turn into a butterfly?

 

[STT]

As I previously noted, Judaism believes they were created imperfectly, but with the intention of creating mankind who, with G-d’s help, might remedy the imperfect situation.

But we cannot possibly become perfect. How could we turn on into God?

 

[meltzerboy]

But we cannot possibly become perfect. How could we turn on into God?

Remedying an imperfect situation does not mean making it perfect, but improving it. That is our task here on earth.

 

[Vico]

As I previously noted, Judaism believes they were created imperfectly, but with the intention of creating mankind who, with G-d’s help, might remedy the imperfect situation.

Sounds very much as said in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:

By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.161
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Baltimore Catechism

Q. 162. What is a perfection?

A. A perfection is any good quality a thing should have. A thing is perfect when it has all the good qualities it should have.

Q. 163. What is God?

A. God is a spirit infinitely perfect.

Q. 164. What do we mean when we say God is “infinitely perfect”?

A. When we say God is “infinitely perfect” we mean there is no limit or bounds to His perfection; for He possesses all good qualities in the highest possible degree and He alone is “infinitely perfect.”

 

[Karen107]

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Perfect being doesn’t sin.

On a prior post you acknowledged this …

A perfect person can make decision.

So the decision(s) to do the wrong thing led/leads people away from that perfection with God who is infinitely perfect. Sin (or making the wrong choices) separates us from Our Heavenly Father of our own accord.