Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Mathew 5:48
2006-06-20 10:26:06 · 13 answers · asked by feliscar1212 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-06-20 10:31:45 · answer #1 · answered by elgil 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mt 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect. To carry out fully this great law of love would lift man to the Divine standard of perfection. This must be the aim of life. We have before us as a pattern for the perfect God; we have the Divine perfection embodied in Christ. It will require a constant struggle while in the flesh to come near so high an ideal, but it must be our continual aim. This does not teach such sanctification that we cannot sin, nor that we, here on earth, attain absolute perfection, but we have placed before us, as a model, the perfect ideal, and we will constantly ascend higher by striving to attain it.
2006-06-20 17:35:23 · answer #2 · answered by Rollover Mikey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew5:46-48
46"For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47"If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect
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In context Jesus is teaching how to be different from the rest. To love all even if that love is not returned (vs. 46); To greet everyone you meet no matter brother or not (vs. 47) and when you do all these things you will be like the Father in heaven.
2006-06-20 18:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Perhaps in other words=Do not stay a baby in the word but grow in the word unto completion in that glorious day of our LORD..
See you there I pray
2006-06-20 18:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by papaalw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is part of a bigger story. That is what happens when you take just one verse from the Bible and try to make it sound different than what it was meant to be. I don't think it is telling us to be perfect, only God can do that.
2006-06-20 17:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by newstart 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being perfect is allowing the perfection of God to move through you.
2006-06-20 17:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Lenore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be perfect means, be 'complete'...pursue all things of Christ, not your own self. In Messiah we truly are complete. It is only Salvation in Him which makes us complete, because he resides in us, and He is 'perfect'.
2006-06-20 17:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by rabbisb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Be ye perfect..." implies making the right choices. Choose life!
2006-06-20 17:31:24 · answer #8 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its talking about love-to be perfect you must have love.
2006-06-20 17:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's mythology, nothing more.
Perfection cannot create imperfection. It's impossible.
2006-06-20 17:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Wylie Genius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're supposed to work on it gradually. Nobody but Jesus gets to be that way in this life, but you are supposed to be working on yourself.
2006-06-20 20:05:07 · answer #11 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋