Note “absolute perfection” is not my invention for the idea of God.
This term and idea is used by advanced theologians as the final and ultimate definition to represent their idea of a God.
How do you know, qua knowledge that absolute perfection is an impossibility? Something that is absolutely perfect could exist outside of the things that you know are possible to exist. IOW, to claim “absolute perfection is an impossibility”, you must know everything, everywhere, that has, is and will be. Obviously you don’t, so the claim that “absolute is an impossibility” is based upon your limited knowledge. In short, to know that absolute perfection is an impossibility, you must be omniscient. Thus your 1st premise is based upon incomplete knowledge and is therefore false.
Note my first premise should read with this phrase - within an empirical-rational reality.
Thus,
P1. Absolute perfection is an impossibility within an empirical-rational reality.
Note my basis of knowledge in this case is based on reason, i.e. reasoning and arguments.
Surely you know 1 + 1 = 4, 5 or >, is absolutely impossible within the decimal system and the empirical-rational reality.
Do you or anyone has to “know everything, everywhere, that has, is and will be?”
Answer: Has to be NO!
So does anyone has to be omniscient to know the above?
Answer: Has to be NO!
Thus your counter is blown to pieces.
Why your 2nd premise “God imperatively must be absolutely perfect” is false has been expounded prior to this, but you refuse to accept it.
It is simply that absolute perfection is not a predicate of existence, therefore an absolutely perfect God may or may not exist “imperative” does not necessarily follow.
God could exist and not be absolutely perfect and God could exist and be absolutely perfect, there is no way that we can no for sure. We cannot say that it is impossible that an absolutely perfect God could exist because there’s a list of things that we think define absolute perfection that cannot exist – that is just arbitrary and based upon limited knowledge. Who defines as a certainty what qualities make God absolutely perfect? Because theistic ideals claim that God is absolutely perfect does not necessitate that the God they’re describing exists. So your 2nd premise is false.Because both of your premises are false, your conclusion is also false, hence your syllogism is invalid.
Your above is a straw man.
Why “God imperatively must be absolutely perfect?”
Due to psychological desperation, the idea of God was invented [conjectured]. But because the idea started of with crude speculations which are irrational, the
silly’ idea of ‘God exists’ [as bearded man in the sky, etc.] were bombarded with sound rational counter by atheists and others.
Thus over time, there was a continual trend of defenses against the irrational arguments till it was pushed and reached the ultimate arguments [‘ceiling’], i.e. the ontological God [absolutely perfect] as thought out by various theologians, e.g. St. Anselm, Descartes and others.
But in arriving at the idea of the ontological God, it takes the thought of God outside the empirical-rational realm of reality into the realm of pure reason which is a crude primal form of reason.
Note I have given many arguments [e.g. have to eat sh1t, etc.] why the thought of God must be idealized as an absolutely perfect ontological God than which no greater exists.
What is great is I have also provided the answer why the idea of God must be idealized, i.e. the reason is,
Due to psychological desperation, i.e.
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The above point has been recognized by many Eastern spirituality since thousands of years ago. So I have theoretical and practical evidence to support for my view, the idea of God is “Due to psychological desperation.”
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I have also shown how the idea of God and experience of God can ooze out from the brain/ mind due to an altered state of consciousness from various mental illness, brain damage, drugs, chemicals, electronic stimulation, etc. etc.
Most of the religions [especially theistic religions] were founded by a ‘personality’ who have had altered states of consciousness of God which is likely to have arose from the above reasons of activities in the brain rather than a pre-existing God choosing them as the messenger or prophet. -
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In addition to my reason-based demolition of the God argument, i.e. an impossibility, based on Occam’s my explanation in 1 and 2 as supported by empirical evidence is a more simpler and reasonable explanation than the idea of a God [illusory and impossible] based strongly on faith reason.