Why would a perfect God create an imperfect world?

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Science is the method by which we understand the creation. It is not a method for understanding its creator. In fact I would argue it's the exact opposite. It's the fruit of the tree of knowledge after all. It's the ability to understand the creation that set mankind apart from God. Our ability to realize we had control over nature. Didn't this make us like God's ourselves?

Try as we might though we cannot and will never see what was before the universe. And we cannot and will not see what is after it's heat death. Science can only go so far. And where it can go even at its most technical is akin to smacking two rocks together too see what is inside then.
 
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Imagine that you are an entity spanning all dimensions with the ability to create literally anything. By the nature of your omniscience and omnipotence, you are perfect. At some point you decide you're going to make a universe, so you sit down at your dining room table, grab a bunch of play-doh, and think about what you're going to build. Now, as a perfect, omnipotent creator, you could create life of similar perfection to yourself that never makes mistakes. But, if you consider it, such life would exist without freedom; if they know that door number one is the right door, they'll never choose door numbers two or three. They will only live out the single path pre-set for them, an essentially meaningless existence. On the other hand, if you make them basically retarded they'll have to make their own decisions based on a mishmash of preconceived notions and whatever murky data they can glean. They'll be a bunch of bumblefucks compared to making a universe of always-correct automatons, but whatever good they do will have come from their own decisions.

Clearly if we are created life, our creator chose the second option. Why? A benevolent creator may have given us the freedom that omniscience denies them out of kindness. A selfish creator may have done so because we're more entertaining to watch. Or maybe they have some motive that's simply unfathomable for us. You could go all Lovecrafty and say that we were created with free will because our souls will be tastier when they come to devour the planet or somesuch. In any event, the result is the mishmash of people we've got, in our imperfect state, and it's up to us to make the best of it.
 
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Who says that god is perfect?
The holy books do but according to the believers, those books were written by god himself or at least god told the humans what to write.
If I wrote or commissioned a book about myself, I could also present myself as the perfect being.

It's like the old meme:
"Isn't it lucky that the good guys won every war ever?"

In a court of law, we would also have to hear the devil's side of the story and I honestly don't think god would do well there.
 
God gave humans free will and thus they got to choose between whether they want to follow guidelines that lead to lifes of humility and concessions in order to make living together more pleasant and harmonic or to live in selfish indulgence where they don't have to worry about others as long as they themselves are pleased.
 
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Divine Power said:
If God is perfect and all-powerful, all-knowing, and completely good, why would God create a world that includes suffering, evil, death, and imperfections? Does imperfection serve a higher purpose we can't really see or comprehend?
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there are a few possible reasons, i am not sure which one is closer to the truth

1. god is completley good because he defines what good and evil is, morality doesnt rly matter if ur the guy who wrote the rules, so he can do things that if someone who isnt him did, would be evil, but still remain objectively good, cuz again, he defines what is and isnt good

2. without knowing what evil is, you wouldnt be able to know what good is, you need a reference point

or 3. the evil in the world is a side-effect of free will (or good is a side-effect of free will, both of these views are interchangable, depending on what u think human nature is)
 
I like the explanation from Unsong:
In God's efforts to maximize good, he created every possible world with more net good than net evil.
 
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