On the Perfection of God

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If God is the Perfect Creator then why is His creation imperfect?
 
This question has been asked a hundred times before. Have you read any of the old threads on this topic?

Anyway, short answer: In His Perfection God gave certain creatures the possibility of acting against His Will. That is, to will something other than what He Wills. On planet Earth, those creatures are us. The imperfection – indeed the utter mess – that we witness on this planet, is due to humans acting against God’s Will in ever worse ways.

By analogy: if a perfect father builds a perfect house for you, you can choose to keep it clean, tidy, well-maintained, or you can abuse it and turn it into a dump. If one day you observe that indeed it has become a dump, that isn’t the fault of its perfect creator, but of its unruly inhabitants.
 
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The old topics excuse this like you with the ‘Free Will’
Does that really exist? And if it is sacrosanct why didn’t God forbid Slavery.
I ask this question on Free Will in another post.
 
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Jesus came and it could have been Perfect there and then.
Millions suffered before and Millions suffering after His coming still.
 
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Let me rephrase my question.

What’s the issue with God’s perfection and an imperfect creation?
 
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Why are babies born deformed physically or mentally if He is a Perfect Creator?
 
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In-His-Mercy-Again said:
@Wesrock

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I will. After you.

I’ve spent a lot of time typing up long responses to people who only ever reply uncritically or without addressing my points. You clearly feel there is some contradiction between God’s perfection and the imperfections we encounter in creation, and the only way I can address that in the hopes of making progress is if you explain why you think a contradiction is there. I don’t want to assume the wrong thing. You’re asserting a contradiction, so please enlighten me on why you believe that.
 
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"I’ve spent a lot of time typing up long responses to people who only ever reply uncritically or without addressing my points "

ditto
 
In-His-Mercy-Again said:
If God is the Perfect Creator then why is His creation imperfect?
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Because creation is not God?
Shouldn’t this be obvious to you?

Are you the Queen of England? No, you are you. How can you expect to have the unique attributes of the Queen of England if you are not the Queen of England?
You are you.
God is God.

A good observer can look at various persons and notice some specificity and uniqueness between individual persons.
God is who God is, you are you.
Demanding that another person be who you are, or behave like you behave, or have your attributes… doesn’t make much sense. Look around you. Do you see that others are not clones of you? Then why would God be a clone of you?

Does that make sense?
 
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The CCC might explain it satisfactorily:
V. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE

302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” ( in statu viae ) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection.
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There is much more which you can read here:
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p4.htm#v
including much about the greatness of God gift to us of our free will, the consequences of our sin (imperfections we have caused), and the ultimate victory brought about by God’s providence…
314 We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God “face to face”, will we fully know the ways by which - even through the dramas of evil and sin - God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth.
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In-His-Mercy-Again said:
If God is the Perfect Creator then why is His creation imperfect?
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I’m not sure What you mean?

Can God create God? The answers is no, because that would be a contradiction. Thus anything he creates is necessarily limited in some way shape or form.

However, can God create beings that can participate in God’s perfection? I would say yes. And i think that’s exactly what God has done.

I don’t want to be God, i want to be with God.
 
God, alone, is perfect. Anything created by Him is inferior to Him and therefore less than perfect. This imperfection can manifest and express itself only in a created being possessing free will. God cannot create another God.
 
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In-His-Mercy-Again said:
If God is the Perfect Creator then why is His creation imperfect?
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Nothing created can be absolutely perfect like God is.

Catechism
302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:
By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.161
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310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better.174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.175
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