Classic perfect being theologians take ‘being perfect’ (or some careful variant thereof) to be conceptually and metaphysically necessary and sufficient for being God. I argue that this claim is false because being perfect is neither conceptually nor metaphysically necessary for being God. I rest my case on a simple thought experiment inspired by an alternative I developed to perfect being theology that I call “functional theology.” My findings, if correct, are a boon for theists since if it should turn out that there is no perfect being, there could still be a God.
