# What's the deal with that God guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716 "2004-11-19T20:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/21 "2004-11-22T09:20:23Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > This doesn’t prove he’s a guy! :eek: It doesn’t? Oh, darn. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/22 "2004-11-22T16:37:21Z")
> [@Wake up call](#): > > As a matter of fact, WTF are you talking about? Agreed. It’s looks like this guy is a troll. I say we stop feeding him. ---
**Author:** ![Nolan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aeb1de/32.png) [@Nolan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nolan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/23 "2004-11-22T16:40:41Z")
> [@foppish young man](#): > > Please in your infinite wisdom tell me why perfection was bastardized by creation. So if creation is the act of God to produce the infinite expanse, and God is perfect, why would creation “bastardize” perfection when the act of creation was, initially, perfect? What is imperfect in nature? MAN is imperfect, and our interactions with nature have imbalanced things, but if one believes in God and His perfect nature, the world created was perfect! What discussion I suspect SHOULD come next are these: 1. God is perfect, by definition, so his creation is perfect. 2. Why, then, is man imperfect? (Which is almost, “What is the meaning of life?”) 3. Why do we have problems and challenges? Why don’t things fix themselves, even if we ask God in prayer, nicely, after trying to live “morally?” I’m sure that’s what this foppish young man meant to ask… ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/24 "2004-11-22T18:28:55Z")
> [@foppish young man](#): > > tell me why perfection was bastardized by creation. Why, because the Demiurge created matter and it is only through gnosis that we can realize our true natures as pluriforms of the Living God. _what?_ ---
**Author:** ![Smartass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Smartass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smartass)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/25 "2004-11-22T18:35:49Z")
> [@Nolan](#): > > 1. Why, then, is man imperfect? (Which is almost, “What is the meaning of life?”) How do you know that man is imperfect? Maybe we are perfectly achieving whatever the creator intended in exactly the way intended. The fact that we don’t understand our place in the design does not necessarily mean that we are screwing it up–or that we even have the capability to. -VM ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716/26 "2004-11-22T20:18:48Z")
> [@foppish young man](#): > > So after staring into the sun for a while my problems have not gone away. Please in your infinite wisdom tell me why perfection was bastardized by creation. _beep_ God is not available at the moment. Please leave your name and number and God will get back to you. If you are a smartass and ask why God needs your number, looking in the Sun will be the least of your worries. _beep_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-that-god-guy/275716.md?page=1)