Isn't it Man that Demands perfection from us. Because he himself cannot
be perfect. And drives us all NUTS with his self-righteous, hypocritcal
Claptrap!
2006-11-22 01:13:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God already knows that you are perfect, She is the one who created you.
Any other idea would mean that She had made a mistake. We all know that that can't happen.
Love and blessings Don
2006-11-22 01:17:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No God doesnt expect us to be perfect He just expects us to do the best we can do because no one is perfect except for God. And your right man does demands perfectios from us. even though man himself isnt perfect.
2006-11-22 01:17:13 · answer #2 · answered by D21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope not !!
I think he just wants us to be the best person we can be and help others to be the same.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone and all that.
But look around. There are a lot of stones sailing through the air all over the world but it some cases it is just because people are trying to change people to be like themselves as they seem to think they are perfect.
If God expects perfection then he has very high expectations.
2006-11-22 01:18:14 · answer #3 · answered by specs appeal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD is perfection and he does not expect man to be the same. We are not like him, only created in his image. I don't think man per se demands perfection, but we always try to get what we cannot attain. We can get as close to perfection as possible by accepting JESUS and following in his footsteps the best way we know how...
Blessings to you
2006-11-22 02:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by mstovall2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Yes! Matthew 5:48 says, "Be Ye therefore perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect.
Many sincere Christians express dissatisfaction over the fact that they continually fall short of perfection. Many admit of continual failure in the spiritual life, of repeating sins again and again, of giving way to habit patterns contrary to the life of Christ. When they read the command of Christ: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48), the effect is both condemnation and discouragement.
In almost all the great revivals believers have sought in one way or another to attain to perfection of living. They have longed for it, prayed for it, and worked for it. But the testimony of all great Christians is that they have never attained to it; that the more they strived and the closer they came to Christ, the deeper was their sense of inadequacy and inherent sinfulness. While their lives bore testimony to victory over sin, at the same time they felt a deeper sense of their own need and unworthiness
The Bible, in applying the term "perfection" to believers, never means "sinlessness." There are at least nine different Hebrew words and six Greek words translated "perfection." Noah is said to be "perfect in his generations" (Gen 6:9). Of Asa, the King of Judah, we read: "But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days" (1 Kings 15:14). "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body" (James 3:2). "We speak wisdom among them that are the perfect" (1 Cor 2:6).
The Bible writers are not saying that these men are sinless. The meaning is that of spiritual maturity, full grown spiritually, ripe in spiritual understanding, whole in response to god, keeping nothing back. A "perfect" Christian is one whose heart and mind are permanently committed to Christ, cannot be moved.
If one's view of sin is shallow enough, sinless perfection would not be an impossible achievement. It is a defective view of sin that leads to a wrong understanding of perfection. If sin simply means a deliberate, willful doing of what is known to be wrong, then no Christian should commit this kind of sin. But if sin includes also a man's state of mind and heart, man's bias toward sin, sin as an indwelling tendency, then perfection presents a totally different picture.
2006-11-22 01:31:53 · answer #5 · answered by NIGHT_WATCH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't expect perfection from us, He just wants us to strive to be perfect. Man, on the other hand, is a different story....
2006-11-22 01:16:01 · answer #6 · answered by i totally agree with you!! not 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't expect us to be perfect because he is the only one who can ever be perfect!
2006-11-22 01:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by xochelsxo16 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think God expects us to achieve perfection but he expects us to try
2006-11-22 01:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because only Jesus is perfect. We will always make mistakes and God will always love us.
2006-11-22 01:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by tah75 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
- God expects us to make an honest attempt at being perfect while acknowledging our imperfection.
2006-11-22 01:21:03 · answer #10 · answered by righton 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋