The Father requires perfection. Only Jesus was absolutely perfect. We must partake in His blood to fulfil this requirement.
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
We use the term "positional perfection" to communicate to other's that we have not successfully pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps. This is, of course, impossible. It is only by accepting Jesus' Atonement that we can fulfil the Father's requirement.
Acts
4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
um have you looked at the context of single verses ?
“For
if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But
if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:14-15
are you positive God requires “ perfection” ? Here’s the context of the single verse your using there to support an idea
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Matthew 5:44-48 KJV
but that’s the context of what Jesus was saying we have to be perfect in mercy towards others and not judgemental
if that doesn’t ring to you look at the contemporary version of that sermon in Luke
“But
love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest:
for
he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:
condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given into your bosom. For
with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
Luke 6:37-
look at the things Jesus taught, and form understanding from there . The idea that Jesus was perfect because he obeyed Moses law is flawed and that his perfection covers us because of his blood
the blood of Christ is bound to the word of Christ just as Moses words were bound by animal blood
if we reject the word , the blood does nothing but condemn us by the very word we’re rejecting under that covenant blood
it’s a pattern in the law , the blood was about atonement for their sin but that doesn’t part from his word . Same with the new covenant Jesus words came first and then he was crucified and shed his blood of that covenant for atonement
one last thing if God requires anything , so does Christ that’s who’s word was spoken .
salvation is about belief not in blood nor a cross but belief in the gospel of our lord which includes the shedding of his blood after the covenant was preached
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