It is often said that God is a perfect being: all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good. Yoram Hazony readily admits that there are serious flaws with this conception.  There are two famous problems with this view of God. The first is that it appears to be impossible to make it coherent. For example, it seems unlikely that God can be both perfectly powerful and perfectly good if the world is filled (as it obviously is) with instances of terrible injustice. Similarly, it’s hard to see how God can wield his infinite power to instigate alteration and change in all things if he is flat-out immutable. And there are more such contradictions where these came from. The second problem is that while this “theist” view of God…