The Nature of Creation

I have heard many incredible biblical preachers, teachers and scholars speak about creation with very fuzzy terms.

Often asking how a evil could enter into a perfect creation.

How could the desire to disobey God enter into the heart of the perfect Adam and Eve, or how a perfect spiritual being such as Satan could have rebelled against a Holy God.

These are all good questions with very bad semantics.

First, the bible makes it clear that all of creation as God made is indeed good.

Genesis 1:31 NASB 2020

31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Creation is good. Adam and Eve were good and even Satan was good. All this is true.

However where they make their mistake is in labeling creation as “perfect”.

Creation is good as God says, but it is not “perfect”.

Only God is perfect, as we saw in chapter 1. God is perfect because he is limitless and self existant.

Creation is niether of these things.

Creation is not limitless as it exists on the basis of natural laws, such as gravity and interatomic forces, all of which God ordained as they are neccesery for physical matter to hold together.

Creation is also not self existant. Creation is not eternal.

Creation has a begining, God does not. Creation is dependant of God, God is not dependant on anything.

Let us take an moment to clarify:

That pcreation is “not perfect” does not means that its faulty or has a design flaw or that God could have better.

The “imperfection” of creation also does not mean that it is not good or could be better.

It simply means that because creation is not the same as the creator, but less than the creator - Then both the creator and creation cannot both be equally perfect.

God is perfect. And creation is good.

Creation, by its very nature as something that has been made, renders itself as something that cannot be perfect.

This “imperfection” is not evil either, it is simply the only way that it can exist.

God cannot create another perfect being such as Himself for that being would not be self existanct and thus would not be perfect.

So while creation is good, we cannot call it perfect and here, I believe, we find a clue as to how evil came into existance from both a good God and a Good creation.