If God is perfect, how could he create an imperfect world?

Question

I am thinking in the sense of platonic perfection. If this God exudes perfection, he cannot create imperfection, can he?

Nikki, if there is a God, a predicate of his existence is perfection. Therefore he would be perfect

Ishen, you make a good analogy, yet babies, in the eyes of a Christian maybe is a bad example. So it says, they are born with original sin. Is this not unfair, that innocent babies supposedly have to carry the burden of two people billions of years ago?

Answer 1

It was created perfectly imperfect!

Answer 2

What if the world is perfect but it is becasue us,humans, are imperfect that we therefore assume it is imperfect? What if an imperfect world was needed for God's perfect plan?

If God is perfect and one accepts the biblical interpretation of events then there is another possibility. Initally when God created Adam and Eve in the Garden, the World was perfect. When they left the garden and were allowed to roam over the whole earth, one could argue that centuries of pollution and mechanical developments have had an adverse impact upon the earth and left it the way it is now. Just like the increasing use pollutants have started to destroy the Ozone.

Just some inital questions and thoughts.

Answer 3

In the beginning, when Adam and Eve were created, the world was perfect. But then somebody didn't obey and ate the apple, maybe in their innocence. Then again, maybe this story is just a parable for the way man sins against God. Thank God you are here in the body you are in, in the world you are in. Life is created with so much intelligent design, it's very difficult for me to imagine God (or supreme being) wasn't there to do it. Study a human cell and how the immune system works, or how a jellyfish works. It's mind boggling! I don't have all the answers, no one does. I, too, look in the mirror and wonder why and how I happened to land in this body, in this world, in this time. One more thought, I think God does get a bad rap from Earthlings. We take Him for granted and blame him for all those bad things we bring on ourselves.

Answer 4

If God is perfect? To understand what creation is you have to understand what that which we call God is. As humans we understand very little of existence. Those who know that are wise and those who think they have the answers are fools. I wouldn't believe anything about Adam and Eve. That was created by small minded humans who tried to create a sense of justice for all the terrible things that happen in the world. No one ate an apple and if they did God would need to be seriously evil to punish them with suffering and death for eating from the tree of knowledge. It dosn't seem that big a crime to me. We can make guesses and try to justify this world, but within the limits of human consciousness and with limited understanding our answers will be flawed. People try to believe that there must be a reason for the horrors of this world, and it is typical of a "man" made religion to blame women for everything!

Answer 5

One answer is that maybe, as far as God is concerned, this is a perfect world.

Another is that the world is perfect, it's humans who are the problem.

The other answer is contained in the Bible; the world is currently under the dominion of the devil and will stay there until the appointed hour.

To put this in to perspective, if you built a perfect and most beautiful park and the vandals got in and trashed the place, is the ruination they bring down on your work proof of your imperfection?

Answer 6

that is an excellent question, but my answer is:

firstly, and most obviously, he gave us free will, so the choice to rebel against 'good' and 'right' is something most will do.

secondly, the first thing to come to mind is babies.
all babies are born perfect, perhaps not physically but spiritually they are totally sinless, have no bad in them.
but things, like babies, grow.
a child can have parents that exude only perfect examples, but things, as they grow have their own take on the things they observe and apply the new version to their lives.

this is what has happened to our world, we have rules and morals which throughout time are simply changing with peoples perception on right and wrong, good and bad, etc.

my answer may very well be wrong, but this is a view i hold rather strongly...

hope someone thinks the same...Ishen XxX

Answer 7

sin entered the world, therefore it can never be perfect as it was planned. imagine it like adam and eve were 2 glasses of water, and when they ate the apple that god told them not to red dye was placed in the water. No matter how many children you have there will always be a red tint to it. and when another person sins that cup gets turned red. Therefore once sin entered the world the world is no longer perfect.

Answer 8

God didn't create an imperfect world. After creation, it was perfect: there was no sin.

God loves us so much!! Because of this, he gives us free will: we can make our own decisions. It is because of our own human sin that we live in an imperfect world.

Since we're all sinners, doesn't that mean we'll all go to hell? GOOD NEWS!! We don't have to! That's why Jesus died for us, so that our sins could be forgiven, and we can live in heaven after we die.
But you have to take Jesus into your life.

Answer 9

if god created the world it would have been created perfectly. perhaps god just planted a seed and watched what it grew into! maybe it was created whole but the will of the people made it imperfect. does perfection even exist, isn't it all too subjective?

Answer 10

World was and still perfect, our beliefs and tremendous effort to turn it according to our beliefs make world imperfect for us....God cannot create anything but forms of itself...So, we are gods who have no idea that we are...God is creator so we are, continue line of creation, but the difference is that God knows what It does, and we are not...All we really know is a pain and suffering so we create out of that data subconsciously....Matter of Joy and happiness is a great subjectivity and cannot be known unless we make it objective for ourselves.

Answer 11

Truth: God is perfect
Therefore: God has the ability to do anything
Therefore: He can create anything he wants
Therefore: He creates an imperfect world

Is this what you mean?