The Perfect Table Maker
Chapter 2 compares a supposedly perfect table maker with God’s original creation of humanity. Work through what the comparison helps us see and where it stops.
A classroom analogy · Chapter 2
What would a perfect maker produce?
Evaluate each inference. A first choice counts toward your score; you can try again after feedback.
“I make flawless tables.”
What would a defect say about the claim?
Choose the strongest answer.
Choose an answer.
Where the analogy stops
God’s creation is not a piece of furniture. Human makers work with materials and can make mistakes; God gives creatures their existence. Original human goodness does not mean Adam and Eve were God, unable to choose, or incapable of losing grace. The Fall is a free human act, not a defect God built into human nature.
Discuss: What does the table example help you reject when imagining Adam and Eve? Why does a present wound not prove creation began wounded?