What is your reason for wanting to be, or to thinking you are, "perfect"...?

[Neogaia777]

What is your reason for wanting to be, or to thinking you are, "perfect"...?

Think about this, 99% of these reasons will be sin in themselves...

Comments...?

God Bless!

 

[Neogaia777]

It is not required to know God... Or have a personal relationship with him, or be close to him, or be his friend...

It is the ultimate "vanity of vanities" to me, and is a trap, and stems from pride, the same sin as the Devil....

 

[now faith]

I am far from perfect of myself,but i am made perfect through Christ

 

[Neogaia777]

I am far from perfect of myself,but i am made perfect through Christ

How are you not perfect, yet perfect...?

 

[now faith]

My Spirit is at war with my flesh.
Salvation brings our spirit to perfection in God's eyes ,He sees Christ in us.
Our flesh is still bound to the nature of this World.
The Bible says we are in this World but not of this World.

 

[Landon Caeli]

What is your reason for wanting to be, or to thinking you are, "perfect"...?

Think about this, 99% of these reasons will be sin in themselves...

Comments...?

God Bless!

My religion believes in a purification process after death and prior to entering with the Lord for exactly this reason.

 

[Neogaia777]

If you say, "cause I love God...", then I might ask "why", and you might say, "to be like him", then I would ask "why"...? to lord it over "them", or be better than others...?

Or you might say, "to make him (God) proud of me, proud of some human being..." Then I might ask "why"...? To lord it over others or to be better than them...

So, you might get a higher position in the kingdom...? "why"...? To think your better than others...?

What happens to a person when they think themselves "perfect"...? Do they not just fall into a whole new category of sin(s)...? Sin(s) they might be blind to...?

Doesn't that mean you are being deceived...?

God Bless!

 

[Neogaia777]

To be "like God"...? Again, I say "why"...? To what end...? To or for what purpose do you want to personally be "like God"...?

Even if you true self actually is like God (like I think my real, true self is), then you must "deny yourself" so that you are not falling into the same kind of sin and trap as the Devil and the many "Anti-Christs" that are in the world, so that you are not in God's way by taking his place...

God Bless!

 

[Strong in Him]

What is your reason for wanting to be, or to thinking you are, "perfect"...?

I'm not perfect and don't have any reason to think that I am.

But God sees me as I will be; and that's a different matter.

 

[RaymondG]

I desire to be perfect because Christ said to "Be Ye Perfect, even as your father in Heaven is perfect"

 

[Landon Caeli]

Here's a good book that hits directly on the subject.

The Fulfillment of All Desire: Ralph Martin: 9781931018364: Amazon.com: Books

 

[Dan61861]

How are you not perfect, yet perfect...?

I am not perfect, yet I am perfect. It is God that cleanses me. Christ has washed away all of my sins. Sin is no longer imputed to a Christian, He is born new, under Grace. "Blessed is the man that the Lord does not impute sin." "But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." We cannot purify ourselves, God and God alone can cover us. God washes us white as snow.

In Christ
Daniel