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We have this verse given to us....
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
And we have...
Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And Christ Himself says....
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
And then we have this...
John 17:22-24 King James Version (KJV)
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
And we see what Christ says when He tells the woman to 'go and sin more', and when He states 'repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand'. So does it really mean to stop from sin and become without sin, to the state of perfection. Well, many will argue against perfection, but yet everyone knows that mans carnal imperfection or sin will not be let into heaven. And we have more, ...
Job 1:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
So how is this moral 'Gordian Knot' to be resolved?
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
And we have...
Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And Christ Himself says....
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
And then we have this...
John 17:22-24 King James Version (KJV)
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
And we see what Christ says when He tells the woman to 'go and sin more', and when He states 'repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand'. So does it really mean to stop from sin and become without sin, to the state of perfection. Well, many will argue against perfection, but yet everyone knows that mans carnal imperfection or sin will not be let into heaven. And we have more, ...
Job 1:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
So how is this moral 'Gordian Knot' to be resolved?
