RE: Theists: What do you mean when you say that God is 'perfect'?
December 9, 2017 at 1:42 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2017 at 1:47 am by WinterHold.)
(December 9, 2017 at 1:37 am)possibletarian Wrote: Why would a perfect creator test his creation?
That implies degree of the unknown, when we test things it's an admittance of incomplete knowledge as to whether what we have made is up to the task.
In order to be "perfect"; he must be perfect in terms of justice; too.
Compulsion is no way of perfection, the creations that have consciousness must decide themselves where they want to be; hell or heaven, without compulsion.
Hell is the justified final destination for anybody choosing the wrong answer.
(December 9, 2017 at 1:37 am)possibletarian Wrote: Why would a perfect creator test his creation?
That implies degree of the unknown, when we test things it's an admittance of incomplete knowledge as to whether what we have made is up to the task. I can understand this being a human concept, but not the work of a perfect creator.
God knows the future of everything. But for the future to be justified; it must run and happen.
He won't be just if he compulsively enforced the track. He would be a puppet master then.
Which makes our own imaging of God quite lame. God looks to me as more of an eternal system, not devised by anyone and not like anything else. Not created and like anything we even saw or knew.
