Are We Whole and Complete?

czechmate (46)in #christianity • 9 years ago (edited)

I'm having an exchange with a Steemian who responded to my post on The Persuit of Happiness:

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Though it raises my eyebrows. :)

I think we are whole and complete already and the gap that some believe we have is an illusion.

Sorry, but if believing that we are "whole and complete" is not an illusion, what is it? I mean, in the very next sentences you're describing us as *"unfinished and lacking" and "wanting, living in the desire of itself"? :)

This objection is also groundless:

a creator that leaves the creations unfinished and lacking is not omnipotent nor great.

The christian theistic worldview has an answer to it:

1Mo 1,31

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

Pred 7,29

See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

Also there is a logical flaw involved on your part. A perfect good God could have a perfect good reason for permitting evil in the world even determining it to occur.

DESCRIBING eternity as indescribable!?

there are no words adequate, no explanation possible to describe eternity

Well, guess what that is what you are making here: You ARE describing eternity! Thereby you are reducing your assertion to absurdity. You are stating that there are no words to describe eternity adequately, so the words you are using to describe eternity as indescribable are not adequate and therefor that assertion is false on it's own terms. It's a self-referential absurdity and it's therefor false in any case.

According to the biblical worldview man is made in the image of God. There is no contradiction that man has eternity in his heart. It's true that no one can know all of reality besides God. Still one can come to know reality or the truth itself because it is a person: Jesus Christ. Man is able to come to know Christ without knowing him comprehensively. I know my wife, but she surprises me all the time. ;)

Again, there is no difficulty or tension on part of the christian worldview. What about your believe system? You've made many assertions. How do you know they're true? That is, what is your standard of truth?