Imagine perfect humans, living in a perfect world. There will be no mistakes made, no misplacing of items, no violence, no suffering. Everything is just good and perfect.
But is this really perfect?
Let's imagine again once more. For unknown reason, someone in this perfect world actually makes a mistake. What might happen? Honestly we have no idea, but let's reflect upon the fact that this is the first time a mistake is made in this perfect world. No one could have knew how to response to it.
Could a mistake break a perfect world?Will they cast the person as an outcast, to maintain the perfect community? Or can they forgive him, which is probably as alien a concept as outcasting him. Or will there be two sides, and war might erupt?
Looking back at this scenario. To our current world, a perfect person ought to be forgiving. Generous. Caring. Loving. Compassion. Let's try to apply this onto a perfect world of perfect people. They might or might not have them. To a world of perfect people, there would be no mistakes. No need for forgiving. Everyone has what they need. No need to be generous. Everyone is happy, and no need for caring. I'm not too sure if they need love or compassion.
Now, given that they have no need for them, and neither do they practice them, can it be said that they HAVE these things?
These are of course hypothesis.The perfect world does not exist, at least not yet now. We live in an imperfect world.
But we can still strive to be perfect people. We can learn and use forgiveness, compassion, love, caring. We might not make this into a perfect world that easily, but we can help make this a better world.
Note: The Bible did not say that this is WHY we are living in an imperfect world (that was due to sin), to practice love, compassion, etc. I do not seek to speak on His behalf as I do not know His whole plan. But what we should at least (but not all) do is to be better people, by being more living, more caring, more forgiving.
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