IS JESUS CHRIST A LIAR?
The compulsive discipline to do what is right, be it a job or duty, is often frustratingly vexing, to be sure; since, that innately constraining discipline, "rightness," is as often diametrically opposed by, and juxtaposed by, "wrongness," which is that impulsively heedless zeal just to do it and to be done with it, whether rightly or wrongly!
Normally, there is a compromise between the two, compulsive and impulsive, ergo between right and wrong. Then, that which is "good enough," accrues; "good enough" will do, we say in rationalization of our known errors.
But, in Matthew 5:48 Jesus teaches, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
But , we love to say, "Man cannot be perfect ." We say that "perfection is impossible."
Is Jesus Christ, then, a liar? Or do we merely impulsively discountenance this perfect gift of God?
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
IS PERFECTION POSSIBLE? IS JESUS A LIAR?
IS JESUS CHRIST A LIAR?
The compulsive discipline to do what is right, be it a job or duty, is often frustratingly vexing, to be sure; since, that innately constraining discipline, "rightness," is as often diametrically opposed by, and juxtaposed by, "wrongness," which is that impulsively heedless zeal just to do it and to be done with it, whether rightly or wrongly!
Normally, there is a compromise between the two, compulsive and impulsive, ergo between right and wrong. Then, that which is "good enough," accrues; "good enough" will do, we say in rationalization of our known errors.
But, in Matthew 5:48 Jesus teaches, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
But , we love to say, "Man cannot be perfect ." We say that "perfection is impossible."
Is Jesus Christ, then, a liar? Or do we merely impulsively discountenance this perfect gift of God?