Why are we fallen souls?
If God is perfect, it follows that he would create perfect souls whom have perfect knowledge as he does. If God creates imperfect souls, it follows that God has a purpose for such an act. If so, what is it?
2007-05-11 12:11:06 · 14 answers · asked by Yoda 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
...so, following your line of thinking, God should create perfect souls, with perfect knowldedge, that do everything He has said. Well, what would you have? You would have a bunch of mindless computers walking around. No need for faith. No need for fellowship. No need for a relationship. What's the point of that?
God gives us free will to choose to follow Him, or to choose to NOT follow Him... and that is how much He really loves us. Think about that. When we die, we get EXACTLY what we wanted: either eternity with Him, or eternity without Him.
2007-05-11 12:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by supersafetyman123 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God did not create us perfect--he gave us free will and told us to make decisions for ourselves. How are we ever supposed to grow and learn if we never make mistakes? Isn't it obvious that this is a learning experience and not a field of perfection?
Any parent who has a child thinks in the beginning that the child is perfect, only to find out later that it is full of imperfections. We didn't have them, though, because we thought they were going to be perfect. We don't only love the "perfect" ones. If that were the case, no one would be loved. Everybody is important to somebody, and that may very well be a persons only purpose.
2007-05-11 19:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created PERFECT souls and man chose sin over God. That's how we became imperfect. Read Genesis chapter's 1 thru 3. As far as "perfect kowledge", He created them with no concept of sin and no desire to sin. It was when they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that they came to that knowledge and then they corrupted themselves for the pleasures it brought. God is the only one that can have "perfect knowledge", or else He would not be God.
2007-05-11 19:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by dooder 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My studies have me believe we are fallen because it benefits the churches to say we are. It got people in the pews and money in coffers and power for the priesthood.
Not all faith's believe that we are fallen. That comes mainly from the Christian religion and culture. Hindus may think a person born into bad circumstances has bad karma to work off. Shintos really don't worry at all about the concept of sin as the Christians put it. Nor do any of the pagan faiths I have studied and those include Asatru, Voodoo, Wicca, and Strega.
2007-05-11 19:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by Moonsilk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's greatest gift to us is the power to love. In order to love we must also have free choice, however, and this is where the possibility of sin creeps in. The freedom He gave us as part of his gift of love allows us to reject Him, to refuse to love Him and others. He is perfect, but we because of the freedom He gave us we can choose to be imperfect - and we all do at one time or another. Thus our fallen state despite His perfect nature.
2007-05-11 19:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by morkie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is perfect. We were made perfect, imago dei, and are fallen because of the transgression in the Garden.
When God repents it is in the sense of “ [nÄhÌ£am] to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflex.) rue;”* not in the sense of recognizing a wrong and being sorry about it. Used as a polite expression of sorrow when making delivering a piece of bad or unwelcome news.
2007-05-11 19:34:18 · answer #6 · answered by John 1:1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, they fell into original sin. They had free will (as all of us do), which gave them the freedom to do God's Will not because they were forced, but because they loved God. That's why we aren't perfect; because we have free will. God didn't want us to be His slaves and do His Will out of fear of Him; He wants us to love Him freely.
2007-05-11 19:18:39 · answer #7 · answered by Atticus Finch 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That we are the one's whom gave our dominion over to Satan. He did not intend for this to happen. It states in genesis that after we fell from God's grace that he regretted ever making man. He creates nothing that will not include himself in the picture. This is what he means when he says he is a jealous God. I'm happy he is. I don't wanna be anywhere without him, he is awesome. His presence is nothing but pure LOVE. Praise you Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
2007-05-11 19:19:15 · answer #8 · answered by farleefarkle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not create perfect souls or fallen souls....He has created free souls.
2007-05-11 19:15:39 · answer #9 · answered by Jane Marple 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We were created perfect. We disobeyed God and fell into sin. Or our forefather Adam did this and we suffer for what he did.
2007-05-11 19:15:27 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋