If god is perfect, how can he desire something, since desire is the state of incompleteness ?

Answer 1

Yeah, god fouled up when he created the first commandment which states that we have to worship him and no one else. What a jerk!

Answer 2

You have a question wrapped around 2 opinions.

1) God desires something | What is it? Who says S/he does? who knows what it is?

2) Desire is a state of incompleteness | According to whom? Are not most feelings a state of something: jealousy, nervousness, desire

Lastly, are we not made in God's image. Who said S/he was perfect?

Answer 3

I'm not certain your definition of desire is such a good one, nor that it applies to Him in the way you seem to think. The question of whether He should have created the universe (and us) or not is such a heavy one that I'm not sure it's even answerable without asking Him personally. Since He did in fact create other things, He must have thought them worthwhile in some way. But, once the universe was created, and once we existed- beings with free will who could choose to defy Him if we wanted to- then the situation changed. God is love, and love by its nature desires to give life and joy to the beloved. . . especially the lost and hurting beloved. You could answer the question by saying that God is incomplete because He chose to make Himself so. He was under no compulsion to do that, and why He did it I couldn't begin to guess. He hasn't seen fit to reveal that information.

Answer 4

He would have to have desire, or more specifically, part of him would.
If God is all knowing, we would say that he knows everything, not that he "could know anything". Not potential, but actual.
In the same way, parallel structure:
If God is all powerful, we would say that he does everything, not that he "could do anything". Not potential, but actual.
This means that quite literally, he does EVERYTHING. Everything that could be, is. Maybe not here, not within your perceptual experience, but somewhere, somewhen.

YOU must exist. So must unicorns, superman, and gods with desire.

All apart from the God who is everything, knows everything, does everything, simultaneously, and thus in truth desires nothing, since desire is simply our perception of a relationship that exists only temporally, not in the simultaneous perception of God, who experiences everything at once.

We just have a habit of referring to God in terms we can understand, such as "desiring something".

That help?

Answer 5

You're right, god must by definition desire nothing. A god with desires is a false god.

For the same reason and by the same logic, god believes in NOTHING.

Travel light and have confidence, oh yahoo questioner, thou art on a great and good path leading to wisdom and compassion.

Answer 6

so true, because god/gods are not enlightened, they are just rewarded as being born into heavenly dimensions to enjoy heavenly pleasures as a result of their collective good karma. The only way a god can be perfect is for god to be reborn into the human world, practise his/her mind to rid him/her of defilement and acheive enlightenment. That is the way of the Buddha.
In another note, this explains that god did not create the world and the universe,good human beings after evolution of many millions of years was able to collect enough good karma to be reborn into the heavenly worlds. Other religions however rely on almighty creator gods to rule their lives when it is they who need to acheive enlightenment and be released from the vicious cycle of rebirth. Even gods or devas are subject to rebirth once they have exhausted their good karma, they get reborn into the human world.

Answer 7

Who says desire is a state of incompleteness?
Faulty assertion.

Perhaps this may be true of man, but that doesn't mean that it is true of God.

God, unlike man, is able to bring to pass all that He desires.

http://www.needGod.com

Answer 8

you are just complaining about you not being perfect and you want to bring the greatest of beings down so you can feel better.