A Response to Perfection

This post is in response to Marjorie’s post that summarized and commented on Kenneth Gross’ "From Satan and the Romantic Satan: A Notebook" (http://paradisetranslation1011.blogspot.com/2008/11/kenneth-gross-from-satan-and-romantic.html).

In Marjorie's post, she makes the claim that "perfection is boring!!!" This may indeed be a very true statement, but I am not sure that I agree with the context that it is being used in. Marjorie is making the claim that Satan is an exciting and relatable character because of his shortcomings, and that God is not as exciting because he is perfect. Now I could be wrong in my assessment, but I don't think that God is less exciting due to the fact that he knows everything. In fact, I sometimes find that I am more intrigued by God's knowledge of the future, and the way that he generally seems to make things look as though they are just happening, when the reader is aware that God is actually responsible for everything that happens in the universe. Perhaps it's just me, but I always feel that there is a lot more involved in God's decision making than is let on, and it's the readers job to not just take the text as literal, but instead make our own inferences.

I will leave it up to you to decide if God is simply a one-dimensional character who can go without little analysis, or if he is actually just as complex as Satan.

-Sheryl W