Would a perfect society, such seen as in movies like Pleasant Ville, be a boring place to live?
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Would a perfect society, such seen as in movies like Pleasant Ville, be a boring place to live?
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Jeremiah 31:11-13 (New International Version)
11 For the LORD will ransom Jacob
and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.
12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;
they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD—
the grain, the new wine and the oil,
the young of the flocks and herds.
They will be like a well-watered garden,
and they will sorrow no more.
13 Then maidens will dance and be glad,
young men and old as well.
I will turn their mourning into gladness;
I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
Doesn't sound boring to me!
Formerly moonglow
PleasantVille was filled with unthinking people though...God created us to think and learn. It was dull, and lifeless. Considering the very bright and colorful universe God created for us..no He wouldn't give us a perfect society anything like what was in that movie. It was far from perfect actually...Originally Posted by Jeffinator
One day God will restore Paradise and we will literally be freed from dealing with the junk in this world that we have to deal with all the time and be free to really learn, and explore the universe He created for us. The possibilities boggle the mind. We won't be in a constant struggle with our flesh anymore either. If PleasantVille was truly perfect those people wouldn't have an IQ as low as a bugs...
God bless
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
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1. What leads you to believe that a perfect world would be like Pleasantville?
2. Did you even see the movie? It clearly depicts Pleasantville as being not perfect.
Eye Of The Beholder
Pleasantville lacks the glory and worship of God; no Christ, thus imperfect, fallen, lifeless. What appears to be religion is insipid.
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It was perfect until the toby mcguire screw it up
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That's debatable. The Repairman (Don Knotts) initially appears to be angry when David (Tobey Maguire) upsets the balance of the town's status quo, but when the movie ends, the Repairman's subtle smile reveals to us (the audience) that the entire thing was a test; he intentionally sent David into the TV show not just to bring change to the town (again, indicating its sugarcoated imperfection), but also to bring change to David (changing from introverted, selfish, and uncaring of his mother's problems, into an outgoing, selfless leader, and compassionate to the troubles of other people). One of the main themes of the movie is that traditionalized niceties are not as perfect as they might appear to be.
A (Biblically) perfect world, on the other hand, is never depicted as being anything remotely like Pleasantville, so the comparison really isn't valid.
Pleasantville is an faded red apple with a worm in it that fell on the ground, got picked up and brushed off; it still has the corrupted insides no matter how much you clean up the outside.
A (Biblically) perfect world is a vibrant golden apple, dangling from the tree, waiting to be picked... and the three is in heaven, so there won't be any worms to crawl their way into the apple.
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This might be a bit off topic, but when and if we do go to heaven and we are perfect both inside and out, wouldnt that take away some of our free will?
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Is God perfect? Does he not have free will?
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So why werent we created this way from day one?
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We were. But we were tempted and corrupted. At the Last Day, all temptation and corruption will be taken away, and we will be made perfect, and there will never again be temptation or corruption.
Formerly moonglow
As Mark said, God did create the first human's as perfect. When you read Genesis one, He says good over and over again about everything He created. Image what 'good' means when the Creator Himself makes it? Its perfect. Adam and Eve were utterly perfect. And God created a perfect world for them too in the Garden. Yet they...like us today, choice to sin. And the whole world was corrupted...including us. Its like we live in a black and white and dull world...but one day God will add color to it and wisdom..and truly 'seeing' the beauty He made for us.
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"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
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God does not have free will. God has perfect will. Free will is choice between good and evil, or simply a choice between good and better. God does not make an almost perfect decision.
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Boredom is the lack of entertainment (among others), yet in a perfect world there would be no 'lack' of anything. So by logic alone, the question is impossible to answer.
However, I am sure you are looking for a more thorough answer ha. I think it would seem boring from a imperfect perspective, but if you were always in perfection, you wouldn't know what turmoil, drama, grief etc. was like. It is like people saying they wouldn't make it in the 50's because of no internet etc., but that simply isn't possible because they never would of known of internet back then to miss it in the first place.
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