Most believers think that Jesus was perfect in His life on earth. By perfect I don't mean mature. Jesus was immature as a child...but always perfect.
Perfection is the image of God in any given situation. We could say it was a state of being or even a place. It is walking in a heavenly place...in the presence of He who alone is perfect.
Now the Cathars had a classification of believers called "the perfect". They were on to something but the problem is that they changed an adjective into a noun. We, as humans always take things too far.
We are never "the perfect" (noun)...but we can be perfect (adjective) by abiding in He who is our perfection.
Now many people have difficulty with anything that isn't sinful. These have no experience of this abiding in Christ...although they may have had encounters with God. In fact it is when we come into a witness of the divine that we feel the most sinful. But this is not God acting on us....
Have we not been fully cleansed by the blood of Christ? Is it a partial cleansing? Are we unwashable?
God's work is to make us holy as He is holy. I say holy as an adjective. But we can only be holy by entering into One who is holy ...Jesus Christ. He is our holiness.
When we abide in Christ we take on His life, His faith, His grace, His perfection.
Perfection is the image of God in any given situation. We could say it was a state of being or even a place. It is walking in a heavenly place...in the presence of He who alone is perfect.
Now the Cathars had a classification of believers called "the perfect". They were on to something but the problem is that they changed an adjective into a noun. We, as humans always take things too far.
We are never "the perfect" (noun)...but we can be perfect (adjective) by abiding in He who is our perfection.
Now many people have difficulty with anything that isn't sinful. These have no experience of this abiding in Christ...although they may have had encounters with God. In fact it is when we come into a witness of the divine that we feel the most sinful. But this is not God acting on us....
Have we not been fully cleansed by the blood of Christ? Is it a partial cleansing? Are we unwashable?
God's work is to make us holy as He is holy. I say holy as an adjective. But we can only be holy by entering into One who is holy ...Jesus Christ. He is our holiness.
When we abide in Christ we take on His life, His faith, His grace, His perfection.
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