Why would a perfect being make an imperfect world?

[Aroura]

In my opinion, because He didn't want to micromanage it/us. He wanted to create a world where nature took its course and where intelligent beings had the free will to act in good or evil ways. The "perfect world" is Heaven.

If it was perfect, it wouldn't need micromanaging.

Only imperfect things require a lot of management.

Also, do you think perfect beings cannot have free will?  So, God does not have free will?  

If not, then a perfect world would still have had the option of free will, and nature taking it;s course, and God being very hands, off.  Probably more hands off, as there would be no need to intervene to punish, test, or help people so very often.

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One more question, do you think we lack free will in heaven, since we no longer have the choice to act in an evil way?

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So, here is my answer.  This isn't exactly right, in our human definition of perfect.  But I love this concept of god/satan/angels.  They would be so foreign, so lacking human emotion, they would be monsters to us. In their "perfection", they would lack our definitions of right and wrong.





"I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is." (movie quote, not fromt he book)


"Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane—like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!"
~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger