buttercup
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Ok, but I don't expect the material world to ever be perfect, but I can exist perfectly. Existing perfectly does not mean to do perfect things. It means to BE perfect. To EXIST perfectly. To treat every act as a sacred act. To be thankful for the incredible gift we were given. To use our talents. To be thankful. To be reflective. To be forgiving. To show mercy. To be charitable. To have peace through the storm. To react to the complexities of life perfectly. The Bible is a how to book; how to live life and how not to live life. The kingdom of heaven is now.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like you believe that God created the world as it is now. Do you really believe that God created a world with sickness, death, disease, birth defects, and all sorts of other physical corruption? Not only is that flatly unbiblical, but it doesn't even make sense logically, and it certainly doesn't match with the character and nature of God.
Also, if you don't believe in an actual Heaven, then that is yet another view that you hold that is not a standard Christian view. This world obviously isn't heaven. Can we bring the Kingdom of Heaven to this world, by the way we choose to live? Absolutely. In fact, that's what a few of us have been talking about, when we say that choosing to not participate in the diabolical violent status quo of carnism IS living in a Kingdom way, here on earth as it is in heaven.