Why didn’t God create a better world?

A question posed by a member of the congregation.  Tempting as it is to respond with a Gallic shrug and say, ‘Ask God’, a response (not an answer!  too presumptuous!) is required.

Let’s look at the texts for the day.  A description of the Fall in Genesis 3.  Adam and Eve want to be like God: knowing good and evil, eternal life.  They take the fruit and eat.  Then, banishment from Eden and so much that follows stems from that fateful decision.  Original sin often is mentioned and sin is often seen as the focus on the self, cutting oneself off from God.  The middle letter in ‘sin’ is ‘I’.  Me first.

Genesis emphasises, however, that the created world is good.  God calls it good several times in Genesis 1 and twice (I think) calls it very good.  God perhaps could have created… click here to read more