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[Neithan]

Why did God design our bodies with any of our various imperfections?

What you’re basically asking is, “Why is there evil?” There are two answers, one logical, and the other sentimental. The logical answer is, because creation is necessarily evil. Anything that is not-God is imperfect to a greater or lesser degree. The sentimental answer is more complex, and rhetorical: Why do we experience imperfection as suffering? The Christian answer is because of the fall, which disrupted the original harmony between our experience and our existence.

I get that God wouldn’t create anything imperfect.

Everything God creates is necessarily imperfect.

 

[CaptainPrudeman]

What you’re basically asking is, “Why is there evil?”

No. I’m asking, “Why did God design evil?”

The logical answer is, because creation is necessarily evil.

Creation is good, as we see even in Genesis. Creation being evil is a gnostic heresy. Imperfection in and of itself is not evil.

Why do we experience imperfection as suffering? The Christian answer is because of the fall, which disrupted the original harmony between our experience and our existence.

Human bodies did not suddenly change at the fall, unless there’s something in the fossil record that shows a massive change in anatomy of Homo Sapiens around a certain time. God designed all these deadly, useless features (if you’re right, which I firmly believe you aren’t.) Why do we have an appendix? It serves no purpose except to possibly kill us if things go wrong. Suffering is redemptive, and we suffer not because God wills us to die in pain, but because that is the world we live in. Pain and death are of this world, not of God, and those things that cause pain are not of God. He brings good from pain, as is His will and nature, but never causes it directly.

Everything God creates is necessarily imperfect.

Edited to fix typo.

 

[Neithan]

Thanks, I should have clarified, “necessarily imperfect” as a relative evil, in the metaphysical sense.

I’ve tried to answer your other questions already but it’s not being understood so I’ll leave it there. My writing isn’t always the most clear. Suffice it to say it’s all in St. Augustine and St. Thomas.