If our love is to be our own (and not merely a program) we must freely choose to love
Which means that we must have another choice – namely, “not to love.” But the choice not to love gives rise to the possibility of suffering and evil.
A perfect world might leave us content with pure autonomy and superficiality, and would deprive us of the help we might need to deepen our virtue, relationships, community, compassion, and noble striving for the common good and the kingdom of God. The “perfect world” might deprive us of the impetus toward real perfection, the perfection of love, the perfection which is destined to last forever.
Temporal imperfection, in the logic of Unconditional Love, leads to eternal perfection.
A perfect world might leave us content with pure autonomy and superficiality, and would deprive us of the help we might need to deepen our virtue, relationships, community, compassion, and noble striving for the common good and the kingdom of God. The “perfect world” might deprive us of the impetus toward real perfection, the perfection of love, the perfection which is destined to last forever.
Temporal imperfection, in the logic of Unconditional Love, leads to eternal perfection.
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