R.C. Sproul

There can only be one self-existent eternal God.

You can't have two of them where the second one is created by the first one.

The second one is disqualified by the very word creation because it's finite.

And so Leibniz says the only way God could create man, the only way he could create a world, is to create a finite.

And so bottom line, it says, God has done the best he could possibly do.

This is the best of all possible world.

And that was the message of Dr. Pangloss in Candide.

This is the best of all possible world.

Remember Pascal?

Pascal says, I can conceive of a better one.

You can conceive of a better world than the world you're living in now.

It's not the best of all possible worlds.

But the biggest problem with finitude is that this explanation for man's fallenness and man's sinfulness places the blame for sin ultimately where?

On God.

And it absolves all of us from any kind of responsibility.

This is the ultimate moral cop-out whereby I say that

Not that the devil made me do it, but even worse than that, the Creator made me do it because He made me finite.

And to err is human.

And now, since I'm just being human, God is obligated to forgive me.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are fallen and we are finite.