The Trinity and Creation-Why?

[Luke_K]

So, I have learned that God is totally perfect and necessary in his trinity nature. The Father loves the Son with His whole infinite being, the Son loves the Father with his whole infinite being, and the Holy Spirit is the infinite love between the Father and the Son. God is PERFECT, TRUE, and WHOLE all by Himself.

So why in the world did God create something less than perfect- namely, angels, the universe, and humans? Sin resulted from God’s creation (though He did defeat it through the Son’s sacrifice), so would it not have been better if He never created anything, myself included (because I sin)? If He never created anything, evil would never had occurred and then everything would have been absolutely perfect since God would be all that existed.

I know one response that many people may have to this- that God allows evil to exist so that he may work good out of it. But isn’t God in his Trinity all the Good that needs to be?

At one point I considered that God allowed evil so that He may glorify His Son and His Son glorify the Father through His sacrifice and eradication of evil, but this cannot be so since that would mean evil is a NECESSITY to create more goodness out of, but God is all the good there needs to be.

Basically, my concern boils down to this: Since God is the only necessary being and perfectly good, it seems like it would be better if he were the only thing that existed, rather than creating beings that would be less than perfect and oppose his will.

Perhaps this is answered by the fact that evil is not something of itself, but a lack of God? But then, couldn’t there never have been a “lack of God” if creation never occurred??? I’m confused…

 

[Luke_K]

I’m sorry to be the first to reply to my own thread but I just feel I have answered my own question.

I realized the parallel between the predicament I presented (of God and creation) and that of marriage. My mom and dad were perfectly happy as husband and wife before any kids came along, just like God is in his Trinity. My parents certainly had the power to NOT create me and my two sisters and not have to deal with our complaining, disobedience, sufferings, and hardships we put them through. But, they chose to have us anyways! Why? Because they LOVE us! (And I asked my mom about this so I know it is true )

Marriage is such an amazing symbol of the Trinity! Just as it is a couple’s natural desire to create and love their children despite the sufferings that result from it, so it is God’s natural desire to create despite the suffering that it causes Him- Jesus on the cross! It is so true to God’s nature to create, that we- created in God’s image- behave just like him, having children simply because of our love!

God knew that his creation would result in evil, but He knew that he could defeat this- albeit through the sacrifice of his Son. God’s single, eternal act of creation is ultimately made perfect through Jesus Christ. His love made him willing to go through with this sacrifice!

Again, I apologize for making a thread just for me to talk to myself…

 

[East_and_West]

Actually God did create man and the angels perfect, as perfect as is possible for the limited being that angels and men are. However, men (in adam) and some angels (who followed satan) chose to give up their perfection when they chose to sin.