How can an Imperfect God Create Perfect People?

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If god were perfect, would he be all good? (or is this just our human nature to expect that?)

If he were all good, wouldn't he want the best life for his creatures? (Life without pain or sorrow? )

If he were indeed good, why would he not have made sure of this possibility before creating his creatures? Why would he hold out such a conditional promise for a far far off future?

Could it be he enjoys tormenting his creatures with their pains? Does he delight in terror?

Or, could it be that he is not all powerful?

Could this perfect god actually be limited in his goodness or in his powers?

Then, why should he expect perfection in his creatures? Can perfection come from an imperfect creator?

Perhaps he can only create a perfect human when he can robotize them. To feel no pain, would mean to feel no pleasure either, according to the standards of this god. You cannot have one without the other.

What is a perfect creature to this god?

A perfect creature is one who can no longer complain and one who does what he is told.

Why must we strive of our own accord for perfection when technology will soon accomplish that?

Finally-Free

What is "perfect" and who decides what is perfect?

I say my bird is perfect. He's the sweetest companion I ever had. Someone else might look at my shredded couch and disagree. I think "perfection" is all a matter of perspective and personal taste.

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WTWizard

I see God as perfect--perfectly WICKED.

DaCheech

you know i don't care of old age illnesses and old age dying.....

but I started hating the god of the bible, when I relized how many people suffer due to birth defects...... I also started realizing how many people die from natural disaster (from the beginning of time)!

donny

The benevolent God thing is always an interesting subject for me. When you read the accounts in the Old Testament where God either committed or allowed terrible things to happen, people come up with many different reasoningn and justifications as to why this occured. The God of the OT was a very moody and inconsistent God who seemed to have no issue with terminating the lives of whomever he deemed unfit. It takes a lot of interesting justifications to explain the mood change between the OT God and the NT one.

Then when the Muhammed came along, God seemed to go back to his former ways. Apparently the 12-step anger management classes did not yield the result intended.

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And what's the point of having a free will if by choosing to exercise it you get destroyed. Couldn't God have created people who would choose not to sin? Isn't there something wrong when two out of two of his creations screw up right out of the gate?