I’m interested in the question of how to reason from a perfect being to the existence of the Christian God. One way of getting a step closer is drawing out the possibilities of a perfect being. This builds on my previous post in which I show how the nature of a perfect being might entail the possibility of evil. But we might draw out other possibilities from the nature of a perfect being.

1. A perfect being exists.
2. A perfect being would …
   • Be able to be triune (trinity)
   • Be able to create “the heavens and the earth” and angelic beings (doctrine of creation)
   • Be able to (partially) become incarnate in a man named Jesus of Nazareth (incarnation, christology)
   • Be able to save via this Jesus (soteriology), raise him from the dead (christology, resurrection) and appoint him as judge over the living and the dead (eschatology)
   • Be able to reveal itself by means of the Bible (bibliology)
   • Be able to establish a church (ecclesiology)
   • Be able to overcome demonic powers (demonology)
   • Be able to raise people from the dead and create a new world (eschatology)
3. If (1) and (2), then there is a possible world in which a perfect being does the things listed under (2).
4. Therefore, there is a possible world in which a perfect being does in fact do the things listed under (2).

Now, one could obviously list more Christian doctrines under (2), but hopefully the point is clear. Of course, this sort of argument does not establish that the possible world of (4) is in fact the actual world.