Why aren't we perfect?

Question

If we are not God's mistake and he is perfect, then why aren't we? He makes no mistakes. To be perfect means everything you do is perfect. To be imperfect is to create things imperfect. Are we imperfect?

If perfection went through the window when Adam and Eve choose not to follow God's rule, then were they ever perfect? Is God?

Answer 1

... you are terrific just the way you are ... don't change a thing ... silly goose ...

Answer 2

Yes, I think we are imperfect. Humans in general are necessarily imperfect since we were born desires in tact.

I think imperfection provides fertile ground for motivation for one to work on the self. If we aren't perfect, we are incomplete and, being incomplete, there will be the desire to complete ourselves. In the core of incompletion there is the seeds of desire for completion.

...Think about it: why would one be motivated to do any thing if one is totally content and, I mean, without any desire in the world? I'm considering both the mundane and the spiritual... The motivation to eat is to satisfy hunger. The motivation to learn is to satisfy curiosity. Perfection is the lack of desire for completion, or, in your question's case, to be united with the God. It seems that the God, in creating us impefectly with desires in tact, would like us to work at our journey to unite with the God by bettering ourselves and advancing to a higher plane.

But the bigger question is, why did the God create us in the first place? Did the God have some unsatiated desire? Was the God imperfect?

Answer 3

Free will my friend. God tried to make us perfect by flooding the earth and saving the most spiritual man by having him make an arc. But even when they got off the ark he had a holocaust where he started burning the animals as a gift for god (true story, its in the bible) and he started going at it with incest...then after cain killed Abel god realised he made a mistake and he could not shape people up to perfection he decided to let us go nuts and run off good faith.

Ive never even read the bible in entirety but if you look at those stories as metaphores, you can get the message.

Answer 4

Unless you intended to creat something that was imperfect. Think of Humanity as God's work of art, if it was perfect it would have no emotional depth.

P.S. I'm an atheist but I like to help people out

Answer 5

Because, when God first created the perfect world, Adam and Eve ate an apple from a tree that he told them not to eat from. Then, sin entered the world and now it isn't perfect. When we are born, we are born into a sinful world, which makes us sinful too.

Answer 6

We are not supposed to be perfect. If everything in life was perfect, than there would be no point in life at all. Only GOD is Perfect, and that is So We don't have to be.

Answer 7

We are not perfect because we still have the flesh. Jesus was perfect because He was never born with a sin nature.
Now the fact that we are still in the sin nature does not give us a license to sin. a Christian has the Holy Spirit who enables them to live a holy life.


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Answer 8

I don't know about you, but I'm perfect.

Just kidding, but God gave humans the gift of choice. He knew that some would choose evil over goodness and by accepting Jesus as our Savior, we don't need to be perfect, just to try to be as good as we can be and then bring the rest to Jesus. God knew what he was doing when he gave us the freedom of choice. That is why he send Jesus to us, to save us from our sins.

Answer 9

PERFECTION WENT OUT THE WINDOW WHEN ADAM DECIDED TO DO WHAT GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO DO. BUT SOON PERFECTION WILL BE OURS.
WHY WE ARE HERE
1jo 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Ga 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Ga 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Ga 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Ro 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Ro 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Ro 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Ro 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Ro 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Ro 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Re 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Re 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Re 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Joh 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him

Answer 10

God is Perfect, human's aren't. God doesn't expect us to be perfect.

Answer 11

He gave us free will. Adam and Eve chose to sin and so we now live in a fallen/cursed world.