Is a Suboptimal World a Problem?

[whag]

whag, we allow people to control thread participation, but you can't just arbitrarily kick people out because you don't like their arguments. If they are not being disruptive, and are on topic, and you don't have some major history with them (like beagle and jorge) you can't just kick them out - you can however eliminate certain posters from your thread if you announce it in the OP when you start the thread.

I said "please," and it was hard to prognosticate his trope about chromosomes. In the future, I'll make the request from the outset.

[JimL]

Free will is useless unless it is coupled with knowledge, not belief, but knowledge.

[bling]

Free will is useless unless it is coupled with knowledge, not belief, but knowledge.

[whag]

All mature adults are spiraling down into the pigsty of life.

Life is a pigsty?

[bling]

Life is a pigsty?

That is where we are all headed if we do not go to the Father.

[JimL]

Rant! Free will is useless in making the proper choices unless one has proper knowledge, not belief, but knowledge.

[bling]

Rant! Free will is useless in making the proper choices unless one has proper knowledge, not belief, but knowledge.

What free will choice do you see needs to be made?

[Rushing Jaws]

Wouldn't the absence of us make it suboptimal and therefore imperfect? If he started with a moral evil- and natural evil-free world, something would be missing. There needed to be a run up to the eschaton. The eschaton couldn't come first.

What would a perfect world be like ? Do you know ? And is there only the one way for it to be perfect ? Maybe a world that needs a Divine Redeemer is more valuable than one that does not. Maybe the perfection of the world does not depend on what the world is, but on what God is, and how God sees it.