The traditional theistic conception of God, captured well by St. Anselm, is that of a greatest possible or maximally perfect being. God is thought of as necessarily exemplifying a maximally compossible collection of greatmaking properties, properties that, roughly, it is intrinsically better to have than to lack. On a standard explication of this conception of deity, an explication informed by value intuitions concerning what properties are greatmaking properties, God is said to be, of necessity, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and incorporeal. Among other things, he is also said to be impeccable, or essentially good such that it is not possible that he sin or do evil. In a recent paper entitled "Impeccability Revisited" {Analysis 45.1, January 1985), W.R. Carter has criticized this conception of deity, saying in particular of any being who is essentially sinless that: