Maybe I should say, he did it with our free will help. Look at the wars, ghettos, holocaust, jails, courts trash heaps, drug addiction, fake news media ... SIN. Who did that? God or us?
Genesis 1 records God's creation took six days. Six times God declared what he had made each day was "good". Then, in the last verse of Genesis 1 He looked at all He had made and declared that it was "very good". ... ALL of it.
"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
His final and crowning creation was we humans, in His own image and likeness, with a Free Will. A free will was required if any human was ever to call Him Father ... willfully, of his own volition.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion .... " Gen.1:26.
At that point, all of God's creation was complete ... or "perfect".
In scripture certain individuals such as Abraham and Noah are referred to as perfect because of their obedience to God, not sinlessness. Abraham sinned with Hagar and Noah got drunk. So neither was perfect, as we understand the word today. In these ancient passages, "perfect" is used as a synonym for "complete" obedience to God in each of their unique callings. Since nobody on earth is "perfectly sinless", without exception, "perfection" in absolute obedience or holiness, in this life, is given as the goal. Few people ever even touch that goal, but Noah and Abraham, though not sinless,
evidently did. Scripture is constant, language is not.
If we interpreted the word "perfect", in ancient Scripture, to mean "without sin or flaw of any kind", in this flesh, then what did Jesus mean when He said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect" ???? Can we be as perfect as God? Not in this flesh we can't. Then how? God is as complete as it it possible for Him to be on an infinite scale. We should seek to be as complete as it is possible for a human to be, on this finite scale. Only our eternal spirit is perfectly pure. But soon, when Jesus comes in the sky and raptures Christians into His holy presence ... we shall finally be "like" Him, body and spirit, in absolute holiness and perfection.
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 Jn.3:2
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