How are we like Jesus in this world?

[Always in His Presence]

1 John 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

 

[Always in His Presence]

No one knows?

 

[Guojing]

Word of Faith pastors typically like to use this passage to teach that physical healing is part of the atonement.

Joseph Prince of New Creation church is well known for doing this, by sharing testimonies of people going for medical checkups and declaring things like "Does Jesus have cancer, no, therefore as he is, so am I in this world", and then testifying that their cancer is gone.

 

[Soyeong]

1 John 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact image of God's character (Hebrews 1:3), so he embodied God's character traits through his actions by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah.

 

[The Liturgist]

1 John 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

From an Orthodox perspective, the answer would be Theosis, which is the process of our salvation enabled by the incarnation and triumphant passion of Christ our True God on the cross, and His victory over death, by which we are glorified and become by grace what He is by nature, being transformed from our current mortal and sinful existence through grace so that we will become eternal and sinless. And the process of this transformation begins in this life, and this is why St. James in his epistle writes that faith without works is dead - a living faith is one that entails Theosis, which John Wesley called “entire sanctification” and Martin Luther called “Christification.”