RE: Why would a perfect being make an imperfect world?
February 15, 2017 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2017 at 2:33 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(February 15, 2017 at 1:52 pm)HairyCyclist Wrote:(February 15, 2017 at 11:56 am)Huggy74 Wrote: I already stated that the concept of imperfection already existed because God already knew the end from the beginning, hence why a sacrifice for sin was prepared before the foundation of the world.
Before creation, God was also a father, healer, savior etc. all these attributes were in God before creation. In order to be a Father, God needed children, In order to be a healer, sickness had to exist, in order to be a savior there needed to be something to save, and if God is perfect then imperfection also has to exist.
So imperfection pre-dates the universe, thank's for clearing that up.
To be clear, the concept of imperfection existed only in the thoughts of God.
God knew there would be imperfection, hence imperfection existed.
Let's use another example. Eternal life means life that had no beginning or end. The only eternal being is God, yet the bible states that eternal life is achievable, how so when we clearly had a beginning? Through foreknowledge. Those that achieve eternal life existed in the thoughts of God from the beginning, this is the concept of predestination.
If the elect are those that God foreknew, and the thoughts of God are eternal, this means that everyone he foreknew is also eternal.
Quote:Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.