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To: apackof2
What God created was perfect...you are forgetting what man "created"......sin

So God's perfect creation created sin.

Why would a perfect creation create sin?
190 posted on 08/18/2005 6:59:36 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

Why would God allow his chosen come out and lie about evolution?


203 posted on 08/18/2005 7:09:29 PM PDT by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Dimensio
Why would a perfect creation create sin?

Because the perfect creation is perfect in its own, limited, way and not perfect like God.

205 posted on 08/18/2005 7:10:28 PM PDT by syriacus (Cindy doesn't want our soldiers to shoot insurgent bombers who are murdering small Iraqi children.)
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To: Dimensio
Why would a perfect creation create sin?

I was referring to physical (the body) creation, not purposes, intent, desires, emotions

210 posted on 08/18/2005 7:12:08 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: Dimensio
What do you like better -- the hot car you worked hard to get the cash to buy, or the one your rich parents buy for you? Without the opportunity -- the REAL opportunity to utilize free will, to use that free will to marshal your native-born energies and developed talents to achieve goals, to chose those goals and ways to achieve them *yourself*, what do you really enjoy fully?

Without the ability to make a a bad choice, to have HARD choices to make, how do you grow, how do you become a full person, a mature, self-reliant, trustworthy and confident adult, and not just a spolied child?

That ability to make bad choices -- that's sin. Without that ability to make real choices by ourselves, we'd all be wimps, babies, nothings.

Yeah a perfect design of independent intelligent entities seems to need that "sin" so as to allow those entities the ability to mature, to become full standing adults.

233 posted on 08/18/2005 7:26:25 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Dimensio
Why would a perfect creation create sin?

Sin isn't a "thing," so much as it is the natural opposite of a thing, God's will.

If creation were perfect, that would mean it was the way God wanted it to be.

God created a creation that could share his will only by acting freely.

As for why God would create a world that would fall, what is the point of the question? Is it impossible that a perfect God would do such a thing?

481 posted on 08/19/2005 12:03:31 AM PDT by MitchellC (Foolishness isn't a mental disorder.)
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