We must be "Perfect" then, right? If we were created by a "Perfect God", Who could only create Perfection.
2007-06-06 19:21:16 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey M, I know what you mean, man.
2007-06-06 19:28:38 · update #1
What is perfect to me is not necessarily perfect to you and vice versa ... so it would certainly depend on one's perspective..
2007-06-06 19:28:35 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Gods word is infallible.
I've never heard the term "Perfect God"
The idea that God, perfect or not could "ONLY" create something, as if that was the only thing He could do, is just madness.
Yes God could create perfection, if that's what He intended to do. One can create anything and call it perfect, however once you give that creation the ability to think for itself (free will) perfection fades quickly.
2007-06-13 17:19:13 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Matthew 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kind of a deep question, what you're getting into is supralapsarianism vs. infralapsarianism, the idea whether God planned the fall of Adam or merely reacted to it. That means you get a star for this one. I'm a Calvinist, which pushes me toward supra, but that also pushes me toward predestination as a hyper Calvinist, which I'm not. I think that means that God created Adam as a weak being, able to have full fellowship with God in the beginning, but in order for God to see the fall, he would have to engineer it AND call it good, i.e. be glorified in it. Then of course there's the issue of the reprobate, and why God would allow the fall in the first place if he didn't want the fall so if that's not true, it has to be infralapsarianism and a weak God, which I also can't accept.
And so my answer is "I don't know" and now I'm going to go look for answers from the folks that have had some higher learning. And it's simple questions like this that makes me like Yahoo answers so much. I love being stumped, and you've made my day.
2007-06-08 04:04:58 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a hard question!
I believe that G-d is all encompassing but maybe not perfect as far as our understanding of perfection goes.
I believe that once G-d created life on this world.
G-d chose to let the laws of nature continue the process.
G-d created the earth and everything in it then left it alone.
Evolution took place ~~~~and here we are!
Although, I'm saying that G-d does not interfere with the laws of nature. I'm not saying that G-d will not manipulate weather and use it to accomplish a plan or purpose as G-d did during the Exodus of my people from Egypt.
G-d is very crafty!!
2007-06-07 05:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anora7 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At one time Adam and Eve were perfect until they ate from the forbidden fruit, GOD told them they could eat anything but not from the tree of knowledge, this is how man became imperfect by not listening to GOD. Read the book of Genesis in the BIBLE.
2007-06-14 16:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by Francine M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is perfect and a perfect option is to make humans that have choice making humans with a robotic attitude being the way he wanted wouldn't be honest......he gave us a choice to learn from are own mistakes and to make are own decisions.
That is a fair God and even when we do wrong hes there's with open arms to forgive us!!
Hope that helps
2007-06-14 10:19:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is not that God is a perfect god who created man in is own image. Its that man is an imperfect being who created god in his own image. The two are inherently flawed as a result.
2007-06-06 19:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We turned our back on God, formed a world of our very own...on our own.
We are perfect in truth; what we call "Life" is not truth. It is a projection of consciousness that we adapted when we "left" our perfect state. But we cannot leave in truth. We remain as created. Nothing has changed, nor could it ever change. We are part of God, we are created of perfect love.
2007-06-07 00:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is perfect. But he gave us a choice and free will and we choice to not be perfect and eat the fruit. So it isn't a question of God's perfection.
2007-06-14 13:27:03 · answer #9 · answered by quzhot 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you've ever read the story of creation you'd know that God did create things perfect but....thats when the devil came in and corrupted the world....
2007-06-14 10:52:04 · answer #10 · answered by standintherain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not follow that perfection can only create perfection. A perfect being may have reasons for creating something imperfect.
2007-06-06 19:37:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋