Glad to hear that! However, our measurements can be wrong too.Nope. I am happy to admit that I'm far from perfect, however we measure "perfect."
We know because "did the creation faithfully represent the vision and plan of the creator?" is a or yes or no question.
I believe I answered it… the vision given by God is perfect as represented in Genesis 1&2 and the end in Revelation.
The vision represented by man is all that is iin between.
The statement is either true or false. What other options do you see?
But we are talking about your imperfect list… so I stand by my answer which is a little more perfect (though not completely)
So you believe that a faithful representation of God's plan and vision includes evil?
Not really… evil was man’s vision. In the end, there is no evil (God’s vision) - but love does include choice to reject God’s way and follow our way.
A poorly-designed plane will fail more often than a well-designed plane even if the poorly-designed plane is barely flyable.
that is true.
The difference between how much poorly-designed and well-designed planes fail is the portion of the failure rate that's entirely on the designer of the plane.
Not really… it could be those who built the plane. The design was good but the builders who built the plane didn’t care. Boeing is a good example of what I am saying. The design is good but man has messed it up.
When it comes to the idea of "free will", a lot of factors beyond our control still affect our behaviours. It's like that Penn Jillette quote: "I do rape and murder as much as I want; it's just that 'as much as I want' is zero." If there were a god and this god wanted people not to murder, a million people like Penn with free will would commit way fewer murders than a million people with free will but also with constant intrusive thoughts about killing people that they have to actively force themselves not to indulge. In these two scenarios, the excess murders in the "intrusive thoughts" scenario would all be the god's fault.
Some truth and some I wouldn’t call truth. We do have factors that we have to deal with (as per my signature) - man is obviously broken. Some more than others but all are broken. But God has to door to put broken pieces back together and ultimately brings it back to the correct design, unbroken, no crying, no dying, no sickness and no brokenness.
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