Last week, I started a debate in our Sabbath School class: Was the world God made during Creation "perfect," as the lesson said, and many Adventists often do? Or was it “very good,” as the Bible says, but not perfect, as I believe? In discussing the topic, Br. McGregor, Sr. disagreed with me. He said it would be impossible for a perfect God to do anything less than make a perfect creation.
I suppose it depends upon what definition of "perfection" one is using. Is it possible for something to be "perfect" in stages? - i.e., perfect in each stage of development?
Certainly it is obviously true that only God is absolutely perfect in the sense of no further room for improvement. However, it could also be true that something less than God could also be "perfect" with respect to what God designed it to be at a given point in time.
Either way, I think all would agree that God did not design that anything should be evil or that any sentient being should suffer. The existence of evil and of suffering is purely the result of free choices that deviated from the original Will of God for us and for our world...
Harry i think you want to get in the mind of God .I believe that God know that man would have sin that's why he gave them free choice. example does God have to tell you don't smoke for it wii destroy you.
I suppose it depends upon what definition of "perfection" one is using. Is it possible for something to be "perfect" in stages? - i.e., perfect in each stage of development?
Certainly it is obviously true that only God is absolutely perfect in the sense of no further room for improvement. However, it could also be true that something less than God could also be "perfect" with respect to what God designed it to be at a given point in time.
Either way, I think all would agree that God did not design that anything should be evil or that any sentient being should suffer. The existence of evil and of suffering is purely the result of free choices that deviated from the original Will of God for us and for our world...
Harry i think you want to get in the mind of God .I believe that God know that man would have sin that's why he gave them free choice. example does God have to tell you don't smoke for it wii destroy you.