2007-10-03 09:17:26 · 7 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Adam's Rib: What happened to all-knowing? Is it nice to live in an over-simplified world?
2007-10-03 09:43:17 · update #1
Elmer and Trublood-I understand what you're saying but if God needs or desires anything, that still would make him imperfect.
2007-10-05 06:34:51 · update #2
It depends on your concept of perfect. God wasn't perfect, perhaps God was seeking to know self, through the evolution that was sparked in mind. Perhaps perfection equates fullness, harmonious balanced. Perhaps our development and need to gain balance resembles the whole that we abide in that has gained Perfection or Wholeness and this resemblance is us as expressions that are seeking from our alpha of ignorance to our omega of acquaintance and God is knowing thy self through us. Perhaps we are the ingredient to that wholeness.
Edit - Consider it this way, if we are developing and nothing exist apart from God, that at its bases there is a substance through which all things are imbued and we are ourselves are seeking development to become WHOLE, complete - what does that explain of the aspect of God we are apart of?
2007-10-03 12:22:25 · answer #1 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning God was everything that existed and nothing existed that was not God.
God was fully aware of every aspect of His divinity, but because All was One God was unable to experience the fullness of His perfection.
In the same way that you may know yourself to be a forgiving person, but you cannot experience the act of forgiveness unless there is someone other than you who has done something for you to forgive.
So desiring to fully experience every aspect of Himself, God divided into an infinite number of individuations, granting each the illusion of separation and free-will. This allows each part of God to experience itself as an individual identity and to explore all aspect of God through interaction with all other free-will manifestations of God operating under the illusion of separation.
This is all an illusion. In truth there is no separation. Fundamentally All is still One.
You and I are in fact God, experiencing Himself through us.
Interestingly, modern physics supports this truth, that the physical world is an illusion made up of an all-pervasive field of energy that connects everything.
2007-10-03 09:32:01 · answer #2 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is not perfect, but I wouldn't change anything because of that. Imperfection itself does not harm as imperfection itself doesn't have the intention to harm. Christianity has the intention to harm and is therefore an imperfection that should be removed.
2007-10-03 09:22:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without creation, there is nothing to contrast perfection to. Thus, making it nothing.
2007-10-03 09:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because perfect is no fun...nothing to strive for
2007-10-03 09:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't. Thats one of the thousands of reasons why it is bunk.
2007-10-03 09:21:16 · answer #6 · answered by joey k 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Boredom perhaps?
2007-10-03 09:24:49 · answer #7 · answered by BAL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋