How it is viewed depends on the person or group doing the judging. Here are some of the ways perfection is judged in a person. One, by each person’s personal standards. Two, by the community a person is a part of. Three, by a religious group or groups. Four, by God’s standards.
One of the common statements made by most religious people is that you cannot be perfect. This statement is both true and false.
How is that possible?
Well, we know that man fell in the garden of Eden and since that time all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. This natural man is stained and blemished and will never have access to the Kingdom of God. This man was sentenced to death by this statement or law, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17.
So, for the natural man there is no hope of perfection.
Yet, Jesus said in Matthew 5:48, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
How can we accomplish this if there is no hope of perfection for the natural man?
Again, Jesus gives us the answer in John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
And again in 1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
One of the common statements made by most religious people is that you cannot be perfect. This statement is both true and false.
How is that possible?
Well, we know that man fell in the garden of Eden and since that time all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. This natural man is stained and blemished and will never have access to the Kingdom of God. This man was sentenced to death by this statement or law, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17.
So, for the natural man there is no hope of perfection.
Yet, Jesus said in Matthew 5:48, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
How can we accomplish this if there is no hope of perfection for the natural man?
Again, Jesus gives us the answer in John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
And again in 1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
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