Why weren't we created perfect?

Answer 1

So actually we could be perfect now

Answer 2

According to Genesis 1, Man was created in God's image and likeness, therefore perfectly formed.

According to Genesis 2, having been warned aforehand, mankind devolved per misuse of free will, into relativity good and evil.

So it depends where you place your focus: God and Man, or mankind entangled by wrong choices.

We weren't created "complete," as we have unlimited Good potential. The key is "right choice," "letting this Mind abide, which was also in Christ Jesus."

If you appreciate modern authors, "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, "The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, and "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck.

cordially,

j.

Answer 3

Alan Watts talked about this. He said, supposing that you could dream anything you wanted. Anything you wanted to experience, you could close your eyes at night and experience it. So of course at first you would dream all the wonderful things you could imagine--great love affairs, fantastic abilities, adventures of all kinds. And after a while, this would start to get stale. You would get tired of knowing what was going to happen all the time. So you would introduce an element of surprise into your dreams. But nothing bad, of course. Then that would get stale, too, and you would want to introduce the possibility of something bad happening, so you could give yourself a scare. After all, you would wake up afterwards, so nothing bad was really happening to you! Like people watch horror movies or ride roller coasters to give themselves a scare. And as time went on, you would allow the dreams to become more and more unpredictable and allow the possibility of more and more bad things to happen. To make it INTERESTING. Because only this would make it possible for you to experience something REALLY adventurous.

And think about the great stories that people really love and that last through the ages. They are not stories of everything being perfect. In them, there is good and there is evil, and the fact that there is evil makes it possible for there to be heroes, whom we love. And all that makes it all REALLY INTERESTING.

Watts also talked about how according to Hindu philosophy, the universe goes through a cycle of four time periods, called yugas, each of which are enormously long, at least by man's standards. In the first yuga, which is the longest (many, many millions of years, I think), everyone and everything is in fact perfect. In each successive yuga, things are less and less perfect, culminating in the final yuga, called Kali Yuga, in which things are pretty damn bad. This yuga is the shortest; if I remember right, it's "only" about 425,000 years. Then the whole universe is dissolved, and eventually it all starts over again. This is like the dream scenario again, in which you start out dreaming of all perfect, wonderful things, and then gradually introduce more and more the possibility of evil, to make things interesting.

Well, that's basically what creation is all about. God goes to sleep and dreams, and we are characters in his dream; except, unlike our human dreams where we are just one character--ourselves--and the rest are illusions, God is every character in the dream at the same time.

Answer 4

We're in the process of being created perfect. That's what evolution is.

Answer 5

Evolution is a process of refinement. Every generation is a little better adapted to its environment by process of natural selection (those who aren't adapted fail to reproduce and die off). According to mother nature, perfect merely means being able to survive and procreate. Once adaptations towards this end have been made, that's it. Nature does not care if you're comfortable; nature does not care if you're happy.

Answer 6

If we were created perfect, we would have no idea we were perfect. So actually we could be perfect now.

Answer 7

I think we need to ask what is perfect? If you refer to the human and aminal bodies as prefect you could be right; however we as humans are not outside of the body. if that was the case then nobody would be mean or hurt anyone.

Live Long Live Free

Answer 8

We would be bored to death and besides we would be on the same level as God if we were all born perfect and nobody wants that responsibility!!!

Answer 9

We were, but because we chose evil, we distanced ourselves from Perfection. So each of us must strive to journey to Perfection, imperfect as we may be. Choose carefully imperfect one.

Answer 10

Each is. A veil of ignorance prevents its awareness. Once this veil is torn, the question and the answer all become irrelevant.