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1 | Perfection? | John | God's Handmaiden | 136569 | ||
Hi All, I tried searching but couldn't find anything, so here I go: In Matthew 5:48 Jesus says: Be perfect therefore as your Heavenly Father is perfect. How can we be perfect? Also in 1 John it talks a lot about if we are in Chirst--children of God, we don't continue to sin. |
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2 | Perfection? | John | Saint N Says | 136570 | ||
I think you have asked a dangerous question, which is good. I have found that those who strive towards "perfection" walk down the path of legalism, authoritarianism, and false piety. In their eagerness to be perfect they draw on their own strength and views of perfection. They believe they are diligently seeking the path of God but are in reality turning away from Him to their own righteousness. They end up alienating their friends and family and placing destructive burdens on themselves and others. Jesus said that He and the Father were one and that if we abide in Him He will abide in us, thus it is a simple vital faith in Jesus that will imbue the perfesction of God in us, because we stop looking to our own imperfection but rather the perfection of God through Jesus and in that we are changed. We really have to stop focussing on ourselves. |
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3 | Perfection? | John | flinkywood | 136576 | ||
Have you read about Saint Francis of Assisi? Corrie Ten Boom? Mother Teresa? Just to name a few. Colin |
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