For a minute there Ays, I thought you were going to say "Things WERE perfect. But then Eve had to eat the apple..." And I would have hit my head into the table.
Just because the universe was created doesn't mean whatever did gives a damn... maybe they had nothing to do, maybe they didn't intend us to be this way, maybe they are watching something else, maybe we aren't actually experiencing the universe the way it truly is.
As children of God, we want to grow up and be big and strong like daddy, oh well. Hopefully we'll figure out how to end the suffering and misery that we experience beyond our choices. It is my opinion that little kids dying of cancer is not caused by any of those human choices.
So, why bother calling it God, Jehovah, Santa Claus or anything else when we'll never know? Only real universal rules: be able to live with your choices... and make sure others can, too. I didn't need God or the bible to let me figure out that one... OK, so I read Kant, but I had the idea before reading him...
