Quote:In Genesis the world He created was perfect, He stated it was "good". Only later did the world we live in come to its current state, cock ups and all.
I don't see how that helps your position. If God created a world that was 'perfect', why would he allow his world to be made imperfect by lesser beings? To forestall the most frequent objection I get to this, it isn't a free will issue, as God could have created a world with beings who would freely have done what God wanted them to do.
Further, the world has never been perfect, regardless of what the Bible has to say about it. This planet was a raging, nightmarish, cataclysmic inferno billions of years before humans arrived on the scene. Lean on the Bible all you like, but this is a brute fact, not subject to sensible debate.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
