(February 13, 2017 at 5:29 pm)Socrates Wrote:(February 13, 2017 at 4:20 pm)Drich Wrote: Well one, God created everything perfectly..But in a perfect world would a mistake be possible? You say the world was perfect but the beings that reside in it are imperfect. Wouldn't the beings be part of the world aswell and if they are imperfect the world they reside in can't be perfect either. Why would a perfect being put imperfect beings in a perfect world, he would know full well the imperfect beings would ruin the perfect world and it all falls apart from there.
didn't start out that way. He simply allowed our natures to have a say
Again, he didn't.
Free will does not enter the equation. Sin did. Sin being that which is not is God's expressed will for us. You may see this as imperfection, God sees it as being incomplete. So why does God allow us to be incomplete? To give those who want to be complete time they need to grow into God's expressed will for us.
But again what makes you think any of what happened was a mistake? God placing the tree of Knowledge in the center of the garden indicates a design point, not a mistake.
Again, it's not about right or wrong it was about electing the knowledge of Good and evil for ourselves that set us on a path of spiritual growth. Which according to his design was purposed from the beginning. God created Spiritual infants and when we got old enough he allowed us to grow through sin.
