Be perfect like God? good news-God wasn't perfect (bible, quote, faith)
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But then again, maybe it's good for people to have a role model (in their head). So maybe it should be left that way? If there wasn't one, people would just do whatever they wanted and that wouldn't be good... Because letting people do whatever they want is like parents leaving their teenagers in charge of the house and going on vacation for 2 weeks.
Last edited by LoveWisdom; 11-24-2014 at 11:16 AM..
I see the big picture. God with infinite knowledge knew the outcome of creation and the evil that would be a part of it. And God went through with it in perfect resolve. Because God knew of the mistakes that would occur. And what did God do? God still laid down his life since the foundation of the world. That is perfect to me.
I think the goal is hard enough, but attainable when you look at what goal was set: the "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" passage was in relation to His perfect love. Look at it again there in the last few verses of Matthew 5.
Being perfect in love, or having concern for the well-being of everyone is not as much of a stretch as bei ng perfect in everything. That may be a worthwhile aspiration, but demonstrably doomed and therefore discouraging rather than encouraging. Looking at people as human, wth essentially the same needs as you is more attainable even when those needs are expressed in twisted and self-defeating ways.
::Sigh:: The word translated as "perfect" does NOT mean what the word perfect means in English!!! IT simply means "mature." We are to become mature in agape love like God our Father . . . not some unattainable perfection!!
::Sigh:: The word translated as "perfect" does NOT mean what the word perfect means in English!!! IT simply means "mature." We are to become mature in agape love like God our Father . . . not some unattainable perfection!!
But then again, maybe it's good for people to have a role model (in their head). So maybe it should be left that way? If there wasn't one, people would just do whatever they wanted and that wouldn't be good... Because letting people do whatever they want is like parents leaving their teenagers in charge of the house and going on vacation for 2 weeks.
Your post has very little to do with your thread title. Can you demonstrate that God isn't perfect?
your post is fine but the title needs improvement.
god is perfect, if we have models, they are perfect and we are perfect most of the time.
for those without a model then u get this.
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Be perfect like God? good news-God wasn't perfect
