If you are claiming to be pure you should be able to prove it. There should be eyewitness testimony to your purity. Put up or shut up man. All of your past transgression against people should be amended. There should be no pride or ego in anything you do. You must walk in complete and total selfless sacrifice 24/7/365. Impossible in this life for a man to achieve it. There can be no defects at all in your character. You're a big talker. Seen many of your "spiritual" doppelgängers up close and personal. I don't believe you. I think you are a liar. And a prideful egotistical liar at that.
Purity is not about self sacrifice. That is about love.
Now in the end of this, what is your response to Gods call to purity. "I think you are a liar."
Do you know the point I am making? Obviously what you are saying is only those who are
pure can say God calls us to be pure. Can you know whether you are something that you
lack something that you do not have, impurity? I think maybe you know the issues do not
arise. Now it would not be helpful for me to list all the impurities I could have and then say
how and why I am not impure like this.
So the question I ask is not where anyone is along this path but whether God is calling us
to walk this path. I think the answer is becoming clear. God is being sarcastic, and saying
be pure as a joke on failure. But this interpretation only works if nobody ever walks in purity.
Let us take the list Jesus gives us as lusts of the flesh.
"Evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person."
Mark 7:21-22
Let me ask in all honesty, is it so hard to avoid these things when you know the
cross and Christ? Are we saying everyone who is saying they are not pure are
inescapably locked into these evil thoughts, with no hope of stopping?
Now that is shocking, because to me, these are not impossible boundaries or even
stunning revelations.
But here is Sirk saying I need witnesses to say I am not any of these things.
This speaks more about the failure within and lack of seeing what we are as people
and children of God than anything else.
Paul was simple about his descriptions. Avoid these things. This is 101 discipleship,
it is something you learn day 1. Who have you been following and what is in your heart?
And what is evil thought? That we can walk in purity. This is the opposite of evil, it is
the fulfillment of the cross.