(February 13, 2017 at 2:24 am)Socrates Wrote: If you don't believe in a perfect god then this isn't aimed torwards you.
Why would a perfect being need/want to make an imperfect world with imperfect beings?
You have this individual who supposedly has no flaws at all, and he makes a flawed universe full of people who harm one another and who hate one another.
It doesn't make sense at all. Why would a perfect being make a imperfect world.
If your first answer was free will then if Free will is such a limiting factor on making a perfect creation why have it in the first place? It seems like that in itself is a mistake, intentionally making your creation with a huge limiting factor.
Hi Socrates,
God is always perfect. That is the definition. If the world is perfect, then that is another way of saying the world to be godly.
God is perfect but it takes time for his creations to reach perfection. He starts with an imperfect creation and perfects that overtime. The world is far from perfect but may eventually reach perfection in God's vision. Creation doesn't work like magic in that nothing perfect suddenly comes into existence.
Another note: perfection is subjective. What is perfect to one person may be primitive to another. What is primitive to one person may be perfect to another. Individuals of diverse species have different organs and senses that have evolved and/or are designed to perceive things similarly and/or differently. Hence, perfection is clearly subjective.
(February 13, 2017 at 7:28 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: If creations were perfect, why won't they be God themselves; in a scenario similair to what the ancient Greeks imagined?
Everybody would be God.
The world is only fit for one God; if there were other "perfect" beings; Gods; then each would take what it made and go live alone; like the disgusting condition we have with countries and nations nowadays. Nationalism; Godly style. It would be Greek Mythology allover again.
We are created like this, because this is not life yet. This is a test ground. We will never be perfect, but we can be blessed in the mercy of God. To be perfect, is to have strength that of God's. If that so, then we would be immortal too. We would punch God perfectly, he would do the same, we would also punch each other perfectly. Immortal; we won't die.
I have no respect for a God like that.
Ancient Greeks weren't stupid when they threw their religion in the garbage; too.
This is a classic post that I've come across. Hence, I've given my kudos. Well done, AtlassS33!
