God's Perfection vs. Our Perfection

In English, we really only have one word for perfection. It's "perfection."

Basically, it means "complete, without flaw or missing piece." But it can also mean "total in all goodness, unbeatable, invincible, unstoppable." And as you might imagine, the two are usually confused. A lot of the time, people use the word without really thinking about which definition they mean.

When someone says "That paint is perfect," they mean "That paint correctly fits the vision I had in mind. It has no flaw in that role. It works well."
But when someone says "perfect soldier" they don't mean "A soldier who is currently healthy and fulfills his role adequately." That's just a typical soldier. They're thinking, "An unbeatable soldier. A soldier who will make opponents cry just to look at." That sort of thing.

There's a little confusion about what God's "perfection," means. Additionally, there's some confusion about our "perfection." Won't we be perfect in Heaven? But isn't God the only one who is perfect?

You can probably see where I'm going with this.

For the sake of completion, basically God is the only "perfect" being, in the sense that he is "total in all goodness, unbeatable, invincible, unstoppable." It's ridiculous to try to fight God or beat him in a game of wits. He has all good things at his disposal, and that means he has all strength and intelligence.
A short version of the attributes of God I like to remember is: Omnipotence (all-power), Omnipresence (being everywhere all the time), Omniscience (all-knowing), and Omnibenevolence (all-loving). God can't be beaten. He can't be gotten away from. He knows everything, and he's always morally good and loving. If your mental image of God doesn't have these things, we're not thinking of the same thing.

But each one of us will be "perfect" in Heaven, in the sense that we will be "complete, without flaw or missing piece." In a word, "Shalom." We might not have everything, but we won't be lesser for it. It's related to Tim Keller's idea of cosmic surgery vs cosmic car-wash, it you want to know more.

At least, that's my imperfect understanding.