neologist wrote:Humans were created with physical and moral perfection (and free will). The disobedience of the Edenic pair caused them to lose that perfection so that it could not be passed on to their children.
If you believe the bible, that is.
I contend that if anything is created to be perfect, a defining aspect of its perfectness would involve its inability to be (or become) imperfect.
If we were created as perfect in God's view, then part of that perfection would have to be our ability to resist evil. If we could not resist evil, then of course we could not be perfect. (Grant me the fact that God wants us to resist evil). If Adam and Eve had the perfect ability to resist evil, presumably we would all still be living in the garden of Eden.
He must have concluded that a human being who is
not capable of evil would not be perfect, otherwise he would not have made us this way. Therefore he must have granted us the ability to commit evil acts.
So either:
1) God was incapable of creating a perfect being according to his wants, or
2) God intentionally created us with the ability to commit evil
Either way, how can he blame us for his mistake?
So he could play out his little game, with little remorse for the hapless beings unlucky enough to be created (and cursed) by him?
In any case, it would seem that a perfect God would forgive his children for their sins, as he teaches us to forgive each other. Since I'm not currently living in Eden, apparently Adam and Eve have not yet been forgiven.
Maybe it is God who is imperfect? Or maybe the Bible is not a literal history of the human race.
(Either way, I'm having fun talking about it.
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