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Question from Jennifer Wiggins on 5/30/2008:
After reading a little and listening to a conference on CD and thinking, I'm left considering one question most particularly. Let me preface with a proposition: Adam and Eve must have sinned before the act of eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. But, I digress.
God is perfect. God created man. Because man is sinful now, he must have been created with the capacity to be sinful and evil. The capacity to be sinful is a flaw. (?) The question is this: How could a perfect God create an imperfect man?
Answer by Fr.Stephen F. Torraco on 6/6/2008:
God created man with free will, which is the capacity for goodness. That means that God created man to choose to become good, to choose to strive toward perfection.
Question from Jennifer Wiggins on 5/30/2008:
After reading a little and listening to a conference on CD and thinking, I'm left considering one question most particularly. Let me preface with a proposition: Adam and Eve must have sinned before the act of eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. But, I digress.
God is perfect. God created man. Because man is sinful now, he must have been created with the capacity to be sinful and evil. The capacity to be sinful is a flaw. (?) The question is this: How could a perfect God create an imperfect man?
Answer by Fr.Stephen F. Torraco on 6/6/2008:
God created man with free will, which is the capacity for goodness. That means that God created man to choose to become good, to choose to strive toward perfection.
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