Is God perfect?

Question

Most, if not all, major bible-based religions (christianity, judeism, islam) believe that their scriptures are the unerring words of God. That, in some sense, the Quran, Bible and Talmud are 100% perfect and true because they are the words of God, who is infallible. Are there scriptural references that specifically state that God is infallible. There are plenty stating that he is omniscient or omnipresent. Those don't count. Being all-seeing and all-knowing doesn't prevent one from making mistakes. Ideally, the statement would come from somebody speaking in the name of God, such as a prophet. I don't recall ever reading a passage that specifically states God's infallibility. Does it exist?

Answer 1

um, guys, he asked for a passage.... come on.
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Deuteronomy 25:14-16 (in Context) Deuteronomy 25 (Whole Chapter)
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are law and justice. A God of faithfulness without breach or deviation, just and right is He.
2 Samuel 22:31
As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried. He is a Shield to all those who trust and take refuge in Him.

and that's not even all.

That's from the old testament, which covers jews and christians, but islam I'm sure has a passage like that in the quaran.

Answer 2

If a person has a fundamental belief that God does not exist then nothing we say will make sense to that person. This answer is based on the premise that God does exist. Concerning the first part of your details God's word is His communication to us. Communication is more than translating words. We use words to convey ideas to each other. Communication, human to human, is complex. The unerring words of God exist in the original manuscripts as given to those who wrote them down. The point I would like to make here is that the language of God supercedes the language of men. In other words, the God who can create can also preserve His message. As to your most interesting question: some things may not have a specific passage that will answer your questions. The collective attributes of God (which are many and can be found in a biblical concordance) show His wholeness or completeness which relates to His perfection. Understanding it is basic to moving on to other Christian teachings. By the way, the passage in Matthew chapter 5 about being perfect like God is perfect (some words will be a little different, but the meaning will be the same) is meant in the sense of being mature, or complete. Much like a perfect apple (one that has ripened to just the right stage) or a perfect circle--same sense.

Answer 3

Well let's put it this way.

If God was imperfect:

He would'ave broken his promises:
No more free will
No more salvation
No more Holy Spirit

We'd all be slaves, bound for hell, and without any comfort on Earth. wee.

Correct me if I'm wrong... but I'm quite sure that the Bible is the only text that says 'God is the word' in so many words. (John 1:1)


It says also (a lot) that God is love.

1 Cor 13 says love is unfailing, patient, kind... etc.

If God wasn't perfect, he couldn't be the creator of perfect things.

Earth was perfect until sin.

Jesus led a sinless, perfect life. Jesus is God.

Faith surpasses all understanding. When you have faith, you know. I know.

Answer 4

Here's one.
Deuteronomy 32:4
"He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!"

Here's another.
Psalm 50:2
"From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty,God shines in glorious radiance."

One about Jesus.
Hebrews 2:10
"God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation."

Another one about Jesus.
Hebrews 7:28
"The law appointed high priests who were limited by human weakness. But after the law was given, God appointed his Son with an oath, and his Son has been made the perfect High Priest forever."

Oooo another!
Hebrews 9:14
"Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins."

This says that everything from God is perfect. So He must be perfect.
James 1:17
"Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow."

It exists! Well they exist! And glory be to God! Whom is perfect.

Answer 5

Yes: it is man that is imperfect.

There are those that say did god make a mistake in allowing Satan to exist or evene in creating Him????????

Without evil how would we know good??????

God is all knowing we are not.

We must learn the lessons, not Him.

If God is perfect, we is there war?????????

War and hardships are created by man.

Humanity was given free will, the imperfections of this world have come through our choices. But since He made us in way that He wanted us to become like Him, which is why we were made in His image, then we must learn things, fgrow and wisdom and temper our choices.

Thus percieved imperfection play out in his great wisdom.

Answer 6

The asker asked for a verse where God was the one talking so I agree with Gizelle who pointed out Isaiah 55:11.

Others qouted were describing God by authors not what exactly God said...

Answer 7

Yes he is that is the God of the Bible is you see there are many Gods and not all are the same God for the God of the Christians has a son Jesus who e worship whilst the God of islam Allah does not as the quoran clearly states allah has no son so you see they cannot be one and the same !

Answer 8

well in the bible we get this:

Exd 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

we have "nacham" (to repent, feel sorrow for, that sort of thing [05162 in strong's]) "ra'" (evil, bad, thoughts and deeds [07451])

it appears god isn't infallible and even admits he makes mistakes and does evil from time to time. but that brings up another interest: if sometimes god is good and others he is evil, who's the standard by which we jugde his actions, or by which he judges his own actions? it cannot be himself because then it would just be god being god, not good or bad. meaning that if he is the ultimate moral standard then he can command rapes and murders and it's not good or bad, no more good or bad than when he commands your body to heal or whatever. But here we see him feeling sorry for the evil that he had done! which means that god is judged by another, a higher, moral standard. and guess who controls that standard? men. humans. we judge god's deeds based on our morals and god "judges" himself on the same standards.

Answer 9

Hmm...a personal answer,based on my opinion is that no,it doesnt.I mean from the religious books results that God is the supreme good.The all mighty,the all knowing God..who is perfect(so we can extract from here that he is infailible,because of his perfection.Something pefect some will say that cant make mistakes)But i dont belive in those books and an argument for that is that are full of contradictions.

Answer 10

Yep God is perfect.

1st Corinthians 13:10

"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."
When Christ, the perfect completion of all things, comes, those things that we had in part in this world (Knowledge and prophesy) will cease. Because God will speak to us face to face and we will understand and have full knowledge of prophecy. There is no more mystery of God. This verse is simply declaring that now (on this earth) we have partial knowledge of things, and partial understanding of prophecy because we do not know the full mystery of God. Thus cannot understand it all. But when that which is perfect [teleios] or complete is come, then all our partial knowledge and partial understanding of what is to be (prophecy and knowledge) will cease because we will understand the whole prophecy and have full knowledge. That which is Perfect refers to Christ's second advent because He is the consummation and fulfilling of all things