You mention the bible; are you interested specifically in Christian philosopher/theologians answers, or broadly Abrahamic theologians' answers? You may also find answers on Christianity SE, Judaism SE, Islam SE and Biblical Hermeneutics SE

@sofi Please rework your post to provide more clarity. Your last sentence shows that you yourself know about it's deficencies. Thanks.

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@JoWehler I feel its only fair to tell me what to clarify about my question if you think it isnt clear enough. Im sorry im not very accustomed to writing all the scrambled up words in my brain into a coherent passage or question. Im pretty new to the site and im only on here because its nearly impossible to speak about topics like these with people my age (Im 16). Of course i know about the deficiencies which is why i added the last sentance in the first place. If i knew how to rephrase my question better to explain my thoughts, do you think i wouldn't? Thanks.

@Kaia Omg thank you!! I actually didnt even know there were other sections/forums. I was asking more so from a broadly abrahamic point of view and mainly the old testament.

You assume that a perfect being would lack emotion. I find lack of emotion to be a defect (it's a lack of something good!), so I'd say an emotionless being would be imperfect. Who's right? Maybe your question should be, "Would a perfect being have emotion?"

@sofi Because you ask me about advice I recommend: Clarify for yourself your working-definition of the keywords like God, perfect, imperfection, love. E.g., concerning theology read the original sources, not secondary sources only. plato.stanford.edu is a good secondary source, but it is rather challenging. Which references to the scriptures support your definition of God? Make sure that you choose a generally accepted theological definition. Note that many of the big theological concepts are ill-defined. There are some doubts that the whole theory is consistent. (1/2)

@sofi Think big, but start small, i.e. start with one compact question on a lower level which relates to a precise philosophical reference. (2/2)

@JoWehler I wouldn't have taken you as a pollilorer of science? Whether God is a hypothesis or not?

Submitted a edit request to 1) remove the apologies at the start/end 2) lay out the assumptions/context a bit more 3) split paragraph 2 into "my view" and "the scripture's view". Feel free to revert any or all of those if you'd like!

(Voting to reopen as well. My view is that, while this has answers on other sites, those answers will be different than on this site. I.e. the christianity ones focus primarily on bible quotes, where here I'd consider the ideal answer citations to philosophers/theologians who considered this issue and how they answered it.)

We should not decide whether to open or close question based on assumptions on how given people on other subsites might answer. And there is no good reason to have the same question multiple times on stack exchange.

I’m voting to close this question because it belongs to Christianity subsite.

And if anyone cares so very much about low quality answers on Christianity SE, they can just join there and add some better answer there. SE would love more cross participation.

Much of Christianity involves nice-sounding things that unravel when you think about them too much. Although I don't necessarily see why a divine being feeling love would be a problem (except that they're also claimed to be perfectly just, and love and justice are in conflict, and also God permits egregious suffering in events he himself set in motion - we're horrified when humans do things that result in even a fraction of a fraction of such suffering).

To @sofi : This question is getting closed because it has veered significantly away from a broadbased philosophy question to a narrower Christianity one. In an ideal world the two would not be in conflict. But that world is not this one! You must choose which slant you want. And choose the appropriate stack site

After the recent edit, I agree that this question definitely belongs on Christianity SE. Christian theology is philosophy, but Christianity SE has more collective expertise on their specific subject. Same thing with physics, math, etc.

I actually took the advice and added the question to Bible Hermeneutics SE which also closed it. 😅