Why Didn’t God Create Us Already Perfected?

[Posted September 16, 2024]

Hi Mike,

I wrote you years ago with a question about the Scriptures (which you answered for me) and now I’ve got another one for you if you have the time.  Forgive me if this is covered somewhere in your teachings (and if so feel free to direct me to the article.)  I’ve read many but not nearly all.

Since God was able to beget a son (Jesus) the way that he did that first time, why not beget all humans that way?  In other words, why do humans experience being sinners who then enter the kingdom rather than being sinless and entering God’s family through the means that Jesus did?  Thank you for your time and consideration.

As always, you have my sincere gratitude for your website.

D___

Hi D__,

Thank you for your question. It is a question we all have at some point. I have said many times that my flesh thinks that it knows a much better way to create a Godly family than the way God is doing it. My flesh reasons just as you that all this suffering simply is not necessary. Why not create a family that is perfected without first being corrupt and in need of a sacrifice for our sins. Why not create a perfected family from the beginning? We all ask the same question you are asking:

“Since God was able to beget a son (Jesus) the way that he did that first time, why not beget all humans that way?  In other words, why do humans experience being sinners who then enter the kingdom rather than being sinless and entering God’s family through the means that Jesus did?” (End Quote).

It is hard to know in an email whether you are asking about Christ being created at “the beginning of the creation of God” (Rev 3:17) or Christ “made sin… of a woman, made under the law”. The only time Christ was first perfect was when He was “the beginning of the creation of God”:

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

This is what Christ was as our flesh and blood Savior:

Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Meaning that Christ was made just as we are made:

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

There are two separate offerings… a sin offering and a trespass offering. The sin offering is for the fact that we are shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. The sin offering is for what we are, sinful flesh and blood, while the trespass offering is for what we do.

If you would like to know Christ as His Father wants us to know him then I would suggest that you read The Law Of The Offerings series of studies on Is Was And Will Be at this link: The Law of the Offerings

The sin offering is for what we are, “shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin“. The trespass offering is for what we do in our bodies of sinful, corruptible flesh and blood.

Both phrases… “of a woman” and the phrase “made under the law” signify the fact that in the flesh Christ was made sin, as is all flesh:

2Co 5:21  For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

So Christ in His flesh was still in a condition which could not inherit the kingdom of God:

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

The way the Father made Christ sin was not by simply declaring Him to be sin when Christ was crucified on the cross, rather Christ was made sin by the Father when He made Christ “of a woman” and made Christ “under the law”.

Christ Himself never claimed perfection in His flesh. These are His own words:

Luk 13:31  The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

And there is also these words of our Lord concerning Himself:

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Mar 10:18  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

Luk 18:19  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

“The third day” (Luk13:32) refers to His resurrection. That is when He and we are perfected. There is no perfection in dying, corruptible flesh and blood. Not even in the flesh and blood of Christ:

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

This all being True, Christ telling us He is not “good, there is none good but one, that is God” and His own flesh and blood being “corruption”, the fact is that Christ, in His flesh was suffering the same as we suffer:

Heb 2:18  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Heb 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Heb 5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

We simply cannot say that Christ in the flesh was begotten in a perfected state and never suffered while learning obedience.

Now it is true that before Christ divested Himself of His divinity and came down into this death realm which King David calls “the valley of the shadow of death”, it is true that He was created perfect:

Php 2:6  who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;
Php 2:7  but emptied himself, taking a bondman’s form, taking his place in the likeness of men;
Php 2:8  and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross. (DARBY)

But He was created in that perfected condition for the sole purpose of becoming the ransom for the Father’s physical creation which was to be “shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin” (Psa 51:5), and this plan of redemption of the Father and Son’s physical creation was all planned “before the world began”:

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Tit 1:2  In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

This is all given to us to know if we are given eyes that see and ears that hear. Most Christians are totally unaware that God has their entire life and every day of their life “written in His book when as yet there were none of them”:

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.(ASV)

It is the diabolical false doctrine of “free moral agency” which blinds the eyes of most all Christians from this Truth:

Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

It is that same false doctrine which keeps them from believing this simply stated Truth:

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

Why is it all as it is? Your flesh will not appreciate the scriptural answer to that very common question but this is why:

Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven

The holy spirit anticipated this question coming from all of us and gives us this very blunt answer:

Rom 9:18  So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.
Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? 

That is the same spirit in us which asks why didn’t the Lord just make us all perfect from the beginning, and this is the Lord’s answer to both questions:

Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

The answer to that rhetorical question is that is exactly what the thing formed says to Him who formed us, but verse 21 is still The Truth:

Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

When it is all said and done then we will all realize that the wisdom of God knows how to produce a family which is acquainted with contrast and appreciates the differences between hot and cold, light and darkness and good and evil.

I hope this has answered your question. All I have to offer  is scripture.

Your brother who struggles and rejoices with you,

Mike