Perfectum is latin and means accomplished.
Good - also the word God is related to it - is referring to a status of proper quality or fine circumstances - something is fitting.
A strangeness in human experience is the ability of something being good without being perfect.
A good thing or happening doesn`t need to be perfect.
A baby is not a perfect human but a nice one. It is good. And so ad infinitum - beauty is often in incompleteness as to say in imperfection.
We often miss that difference or don`t want to see it - in our (mostly) twisted understanding good must be perfect.
There is much that can be good without being perfect.
I once worked in a home for diabeled kids.
Some may cry seeing these deformations and malfunctions being obvious there.
And some may see the beauty within imperfection. This is what I mean with good.
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Perfectus - accomplished is nothing being in process, only in the sense of a finished process: a perfect painting (finished), perfect recovery (finished) and so on...
Yes, there is goodness in this world, otherwise we could not survive in this world. Even imperfect goodness is like a hologramm of a whole "thing" reaching toward us, even a somewhat blind mirror can mirror the sun - imperfect, but the good sun.
In this understanding God is not even perfect, for he is still in process of something. (It was Whitehead speaking about this 100 years ago).
Living with the imperfect thus belongs to being human, and we should not wonder about it. We are supposed to live under the force of the imperfect. Any call for perfection is inhuman, wrong and a call for stupidity. Humans shall be good rather than perfect, shall love rather than being always right, shall aknowledge rather than fulfilling all possible rules...