Why Didn’t God Create Us Perfect?

2021-10-12

People have asked why God created us with the need for a Savior. Why didn’t God create us perfect in the first place?

But He did create us perfect. Human beings did not need a Savior in the beginning: “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). God cannot create anything but good things. However, He created humankind with freewill; that’s the difference. The first people chose to rebel against God. However, what does that have to do with us?

When we have children, we notice that they physically look like us, but they also act like us, and sin like we do. Some of it they learn from us by example. Some of it is in their genetic makeup. However you look at it, we passed our specific signature sins and shortcomings to our children: “The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” (Numbers 14:18). The consequences of our sins travel downstream. Our children are not judged for our sins (Ezekiel 18:20), but they seem to do the same things.

So, what happened when the first man, Adam, rebelled against God? That principle of sin was passed to all people. Every descendant feels the effects. We were created perfect in the seed of Adam, but his sin spoiled everyone at the dawn of time. We may not be judged for Adam’s sin specifically, but we were born sinners because of that initial sin.

We need a Savior. Jesus is that Savior. He fixed the problem by dying for our sin and rising again. Trusting Him appropriates that salvific new life. We are born again at that time. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Being born again is not just something nice we say. If we trust in Christ, we say we are born again because we changed family lineage. We have died to the old Adamic line and are born into a new line of Christ. Romans 5:12-21 discusses this in detail. Being a new creature becomes much clearer when we think of things this way.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)