[furball4paws]

So maybe the Hindus have a point. We are supposed to progress spiritually until we become one with the deity?

It is awful hard to picture God with a bad appendix, blown knee ligaments, hemorrhoids, bad vision, ulcers and Alzheimer's.

[MeanWestTexan]

I don't know about the unity thing. That is pretty well contrary to the Scripture.

For one, the Resurrection is expressly bodily -- now how bodily,

And of course, Jesus (who is a facet of God) was fully man, and that includes all the "joys" of being a human from Acid reflux to Zits.

[Coyoteman]

It is awful hard to picture God with a bad appendix, blown knee ligaments, hemorrhoids, bad vision, ulcers and Alzheimer's.

You want a design flaw? How about intractable pain, which serves no useful purpose but with no way to turn it down or off? Certainly not an example of good design there.