I have heard, as I’ll bet some of you have, too, people ask how could a perfect God make such imperfect beings as we humans?
Well, he did, and he did it for a reason.
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The reason God made us imperfect is simple- if we were perfect, we would never be stupid enough to reject God, meaning that Free Will would not really be free because we would be perfect, and perfect creatures don’t really have a choice because they’re, well….perfect, so they can’t sin.
A perfect creature would automatically accept everything God said to do and do it perfectly. There wouldn’t be any need for a Tree of Knowledge or a Tree of Life; perfect creatures would never do anything wrong because they’re, well…perfect.
But God didn’t want us to be automatons, he wanted us to have a choice to either obey, love, and honor him or to reject him and create our own gods.
Why? Because God wanted us to choose to honor him, to willingly obey his word, and to desire to worship him as the one and only true God; he didn’t want it to be natural, he wanted it to be by volition.
Again, perfect beings can’t make a mistake or choose the wrong thing to do, and that wasn’t what God wanted.
Heck, even the angels aren’t perfect, the best example being Satan. He was the most beautiful of all of the angels, but he wasn’t perfect. And, for the record, he has continued to improve on his imperfection for many centuries.
So, there it is: simple, easy to understand, yet profound.
God made us imperfect so we could have Free Will. Thereby, when we choose to do the best we can to obey his instructions for how to worship him and how to treat each other (which, for the record, are only found in the Torah), he knows that it is not a result of being made that way, but by choice.
Of course, God knows our minds and hearts, so it isn’t really for him to know, but to convince other imperfect human beings that it is a choice we made.
Faith is a choice, and a choice that we need to stick to, but only after we have been studying the Torah and the rest of the Bible. We should justify that choice by learning all we can know about God (not from a religion, and not from some letters written by a guy trying to keep his congregations on the right path, but from God, himself) so that we can feel comfortable with that faithful choice we made.
And never be afraid to question that choice because the truth will always win out against a lie, so the more you question your choices, the more you try to prove yourself wrong, the more confident you can be that your choice is the correct one.
After all, we’re only human.
Now you know why God made us imperfect; it was so we could make the perfectly intelligent choice to follow him, and not some man-made religion.
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That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!