What did God do during that eternity before he created everything? If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.
Agree or disagree? Why?
2007-07-06 09:54:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i believe that He is so infinitely creative that He just decided to create.
so simple, yet, if one is perfect one seeks to do something good with that perfection.
to be perfect does not mean one has no desires, just no needs.
He doesnt need us. humans dont NEED children but we want them. He wanted us. perhaps He spent His pre-earth time planning us, or maybe this has all been done before.
i'll ask Him someday.
2007-07-06 09:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by neonatheart 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is a very interesting outlook. I disagree, but your argument is pretty good. However I think there are two things you have skimmed over. First of all, the issue of time. If he is outside of time, then there really isn't a "before" or "after." Secondly, since God is the "creator" then obviously he must create, right? And if you're looking from a Christian standpoint, I don't necessarily know that "perfect" means you are always happy or feel "complete". It just means you don't sin. I somehow doubt Jesus was feeling complete and happy when he was getting tortured. Yet he was still perfect, because he did not commit sin.
2007-07-06 10:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by Linz ♥ VT 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I believe that perfection means to be without fault and nothing more. I believe God is the same way we are. Creating is what we do. It's like if you don't learn and stop having experiences, you don't grow. Then you begin to die like a well-watered plant that is locked in a box. Creating things makes us feel alive. I don't think perfection has anything to do with it. It's the growing that matters even if we never get to where we're going. Chinese philosophy says that it is the journey that matters. I agree with you that God is growing too. He's been around longer than everything else-even time itself. In the Bible, he seems to make mistakes and have regrets and needs human intervention to make decisions as if we were symbiotic. Yep, God must move in cycles just like the rest of nature or he will just blow up and blow away.
2007-07-06 10:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ego always seeks perfection. If you are after money, the ego wants you to be the richest man in the world, the most perfect man in the world. If you are after morality, you want to become the most perfect saint. The ego has a very very deep desire to be perfect. All egoists are perfectionists, and all perfectionists are neurotic. The idea of perfection drives people mad. A humble person know imperfections, and a humble person accepts his imperfections. And a humble person does not ask for the impossible. It is the ego that always asks for the impossible and fails. And feels frustrated, betrayed, cheated.
2016-05-20 00:27:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
disagree--you are hypothesizing on an eternal Deity with on thing lacking--The Bible--The word if has 4 meaning--which were you meaning? Many of your Question about his omniscience can simply be proved by Faith. You really cannot give anthropomorphic qualities to a personality without knowing the attributes of same. You do not believe--that shows your ignorance--not Gods--not mine.
2007-07-06 10:07:15 · answer #5 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perfection is " All That Is".. therefore infinite everything has no way of turning and looking on itself because it is everything. That is why we were sent off as individualized sparks of All That Is so, if you will, "God" could see and experience himself/herself in real terms within the finite. The infinite made temporarily finite.
Perfection is really Omnipotence (literally, "all power") is power with no limits or inexhaustible, in other words, unlimited power. Everything! All that is seen and unseen.
2007-07-06 10:03:00 · answer #6 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What good is love without anyone to share the love with? And the more people to share the love with, the better, right?
2007-07-06 10:02:26 · answer #7 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree. Know one truely knows why God created everything.
2007-07-06 09:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by Brittany2010 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
neutral
2007-07-06 09:57:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your kung fu is very strong.
2007-07-06 10:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋