Pio's Proverb 165: AN IMPERFECT WORLD: Why did God create it that way?

I have heard atheists tell me that if God who is all perfect exists, why did He create an imperfect world? Thus the imperfect world is a proof for God's non-existence. The total opposite is the reason that God now allows an imperfect world to exist. Only an imperfect world can perfect you!  How does an imperfect world perfect you and me?  An imperfect world causes us to become compassionate, caring and self-forgetful in the care of others. When our love for people comes to perfection by our love and compassion for others, then we will be perfect to enter a most loving community of love in heaven for all eternity. We were created to enjoy the Beauty and Love of God for all eternity; but we first must become loving to enter this heaven of love and bliss forever.  That is why Jesus said: "I was thirty; and you gave me to drink. I was naken and you clothed me. I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick and in prison, and you came to visit me. I was homeless and you took me in.  For whenever you did this for the least of my brethren, you did it for Me. Enter into My Father's Kingdom."  It was our love for others that will allow us to get to heaven. How could we do all those things for Christ and to Christ, if it were a perfect world?


God's first intent was that we would just love each other naturally as did Adam and Even love each other and wanted to bring children into this world. But they messed up God's perfect plan: Before the fall of man, the world was quite perfect. God planned that we would grow in loving one another without death and disease. God made the world in Genesis' account quite perfect. It was Adam and Eve who chose to mess up god's perfect plan. So, the world became imperfect because Adam and Even chose to be independent of God and brought sin and death to the world.  But then God has a new contingency plan: "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life." John 3:16.

So, God's contingency plan to redeem the world is Jesus: the New Adam who sacrifices Himself for the Bride the Church to perfect her and cleanse her and bring her back into paradise. This happens on every level of human existence. God is perfecting us in our beauty, in the truth and in our love. For examples, there are felons in prison who have become contemplatives and have asked Fr. Dubay to do a lecture series on St. John of the Cross. These men are becoming more saintly than if they had not gone to prison.

Thus, what is so amazing about God is that he can bring good out of evil. Jesus dying for our sins happened on Good Friday. Why is it "Good" if dying was so bad? Jesus's dying undid the sin of Adam and Eve and all our sins since then till now and for all till the end of the world. That is "Good".

So if you suffer and then learn to have compassion for others, that is Good!

So if you are blind and learn to have compassion for those can't see, that is Good!

So if you have been hungry and learn to feed the hungry by a new compassion, that is Good!

So if you have chonic pain in your shoulders and legs and learn to have compassion for those in pain, that is very Good!

So if you have gone homeless in your life and have learned to love the homeless, that is Good!

So if you have needed to be forgiven by God and learn to be patient and forgiving to others, that is Good!

So if you have been rejected and unloved and have learned how Jesus felt on the cross, that is Good!

So if you have been close to death and lonely and have learned to sit with those who are dying, that is Good!

So if you see and pray for abortion doctors to be converted and come to the Lord and you learn to love those who "do not know what they are doing", that is Good!

So if there were no chidlren in the womb who needed your protection, you would not be fighting for their rights to life and pray the rosary outside clinics, and that is Good!

So if there were no frightened women who think that abortion is the answer to their problems,  and you learn to counsel them to not abort, that is Good!

So if you have lost a child or a parent or a wife or a husband and have learned what sorrow really means and can have compassion for others who have had similar experiences of loss, that is Good!

So if you have had your career ruined by greed of others or the unconscionable ambitions of others and have learned how to love those who have hurt you, that is Good!

So if you have truly received unconditional love from your parents, spouse, children and have learned to love others unconditionally and to love God more purely, than that is VERY Good!

Strangely enough, none other those Good things would have happened to you in a perfect world without suffering. There would be no saints or martyrs in a perfect world. There would be no great stateman like Abraham Lincoln in a perfect world. There would be no Mother Teresas in a perfect world.

There would be no wonderful-beautiful-growing-in-love YOU in a perfect world!

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"Father, thank you for giving us all the suffering inour lives so we can learn to love and have compassion on those who suffer...so that one day you will say to us: "Come my beloved and enter my kingdom.. forever."
Father, please bring us home to see You face to face in a most loving community so that we can share in Your own perfect Community: the Most Holy Trinity of mutual love and bliss and pefect joy. In Jesus' Name. Amen. ..through Mary Immaculate."

Love, Pio

Love, Pio