Why do people assume my life is perfect?
It is nowhere close to that. I was asked by a girl who said she thinks i lead the perfect life. But i don't think so at all. I asked her why she is assuming this, and this is what she told me: (remember its not me saying this *I have amazing grades, and i am really smart *I am athletic playing three varsity sports track,soccer and basketball *I am pretty *I am legacies at good colleges. *I am rich *I have friends that like me * I have a boyfriend who seems to love me But my life is nowhere close to prefect *my parents are never home last time i ate dinner with both of them at the same table was christmas eve, and two hours later after unpacking presents my dad had to leave on Business *in the last three years i had two guys cheat on me *i had fake friends who used me * i moved twice because my parents decided it was best for US (not asking me) *a friend of mine killed herself. I do not try carrying these things on the outside but do people really think you are perfect? And how do i portray it to be this way?
Is it possible for a perfect God to create an imperfect world?
Q: Is it possible for a perfect God to create an imperfect world?A: The very idea of “perfection” kind of breaks down at the scale of gods. If a god is omnipotent, it can make anything, perfect or not. If a god can only make perfect things and thus cannot make imperfect things, it isn’t omnipotent. And a god that is not omnipotent would be something less than perfect.Some people may claim that anything made by a god must necessarily be perfect, regardless of whether it looks perfect to us or not. So if the god made 2 nearly identical worlds, only in one, mankind was largely kind and benevolent, and in the other, mankind was largely evil and selfish, BOTH worlds would therefore be “perfect”. Therefore, the very word “perfect” loses it’s meaning.
Why do Jehovah's Witnesses say Adam was a 'perfect man' when he clearly wasn't? Adam sinned and brought death to humanity unlike sinless Jesus who brought life.
Nothing that God does in unrighteous(Deuteronomy 32:4) . . .The Rock, perfect is his activity, For all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness who is never unjust; Righteous and upright is he.After Adam was created we read “. . .God saw everything he had made, and look! it was very good. . .(Genesis 1:31)Adam was created without sin. he was told that the only way he die is if he sinned by disobeying Gods one and only DO NOT - eating of the friut from a tree that did not belong to Adam to eat from(Genesis 2:17) . . .But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.”Romans 5:12 thus tells usThat is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned.Even Jesus had the opportunity to sin. that is why we have the report of Satan tempting him and Jesus being able to resist that temptation to show that a perfect man can obey Gods laws.The death of Jesus was a corresponding ransom price to pay for the perfect life that Adam lost.
If God calls me to be perfect, yet I'm also told there's no perfect Christian, then what's the point for me to keep trying to be perfect? I feel like I'll just keep failing because I'm human.
Good for you, coming to grips with this issue through experience and THINKING. I truly hope this will help you. Consider for a moment, an apple tree, just planted. After it is planted, the Planter steps back and looks at it for a moment. "Ah, a PERFECT apple tree", says this expert in apple growing. Even though this apple tree presently has few if any leaves and certainly no apples, yet it is a perfect apple tree already in it's present stage..So with us; as soon as we are born again by faith in the scriptural Christ, God sees our sins removed and a new, sinless, perfect nature implanted in us by the Spirit of God. This nature is the same as Christ's human nature and the Holy Spirit dwells there forever.In fact, we are always seen as perfect before God, so much so, that In His wisdom He sees us as "already seated in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus" though we have not yet arrived in Heaven.There is another sense in which 'perfect' is used in scripture and that is in the maturing of baby Christians into adults. Such have grown in understanding the 'word of His grace' and are not 'blown about by every wind of doctrine' but are walking in faith, 'looking unto Jesus' in their lives. They are apple trees with apples. They have matured.Psalm 1 gives an excellent picture of all of this process of maturing. The 'rivers of water' are the spiritual truths of the word of God which nurture the new born Christian in to fruit bearing. I truly hope this explanation helps you! Here is Psalm 1; happy meditating!Psalm 1 (NKJV) from Bible Gateway.comThe Way of the Righteous and the End of the Ungodly1 Blessed is the manWho walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither;And whatever he does shall prosper.4 The ungodly are not so,But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Why did God forbid the Tree of Knowledge and Life?
I mean, why "knowledge" and "life" If Adam had eaten of the Tree of Life instead and Eve had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, how would things have been different? If God put them there to give men choice or freedom of will, then why, afterwards, did God guard the Tree of Life with a spinning sword to prevent man from choosing that also? Why didn't God just put two "disobedience buttons" in the garden instead? Why tempt men with knowledge and life - and all the while knowing the result would be millions going to be annihilated or tormented eternally in Hell? Likewise, why create angels that you know, one day, you'll have to destroy? As well, a planet? Why create anything, knowing that "sin" will creep up and result in destruction? In other words, why does God play around with evil? If God is self-perfect - why create anything at all? What's wrong with perfection? God, in truth, created imperfection for.... For what? There's no two ways about it. God created everything. Why?