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I am a born-again Christian, who is Reformed, but also charismatic, spiritually speaking. (I do not speak in tongues, but I believe glossalalia is a bona fide gift not given to all, and not as great as prophecy, for example.) I have several years of college education but only completed a two-year degree. I was raised Lutheran and confirmed, but I didn't "find Christ" until I was in the Army and responded to a Billy Graham crusade in 1973. I was mentored or discipled by the Navigators in the army and upon discharge joined several evangelical, Bible-teaching churches. I was baptized as an infant, but believe in believer baptism, of which I was a partaker after my conversion experience. I believe in the "5 Onlys" of the reformation: sola fide (faith alone); sola Scriptura (Scripture alone); soli Christo (Christ alone), sola gratia (grace alone), and soli Deo gloria (to God alone be the glory). I affirm TULIP as defended in the Reformation.. I affirm most of The Westminster Confession of Faith, especially pertaining to Providence.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Can Humans Be Perfect As Well?

 

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If Jesus Christ the human was perfect, why didn’t God make other humans perfect as well?
Karl Broberg
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Updated Wed
Blogger/Bible teacher (10+ yrs), researcher, life coach
  1. Jesus was God, that’s the only reason He was perfect and without sin and incapable of it.
  2. Jesus was also human, but the perfect one because of His virgin birth.
  3. Man was originally without sin (innocent, not perfect), but Adam and Eve chose to sin when given the free choice—that’s history.
  4. Since Adam, we inherit Adam’s sin nature (original sin) and are born sinners, and in sin.
  5. Even if we didn’t inherit a sin nature, we would still sin—we’d do as Adam did because we are in Adam as the head of the race (we’re human).
  6. Believers in Christ will be restored to being without sin in heaven—ultimate sanctification and freedom from sin’s power and presence.
  7. Unbelievers who refuse repentance will be judged and punished in hell.

The foregoing is orthodox Christian doctrine and not subject to debate.

NB: Perfect implies one cannot get worse because one is perfect and incapable of it, and one cannot improve for the better because one is already perfect. God is perfect in all ways, not just in His ways or works, but His entity and essence. God cannot create a perfect being, because that being would be God. He cannot create another God. “He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.” (St. Anselm of Canterbury).

Perfect Being Theology: a view of God formulated by Anselm of Canterbury that define God as “the greatest possible being” and “that than which none greater can be conceived.” That is, everything that it is better to be than not to be! God is something that we never could’ve imagined! “As for God, His ways is perfect,” Psalm 18:30; 2 Sam. 22;:31.

I am referring to St. Anselm of Canterbury, who defined the perfection of God that way. When I refer to Christ as perfect, I am contrasting Him with men, not the other members of the Godhead who are all coequal, coeternal, and coexistent, what is true of Jesus is also true of the Father, for they are One. God cannot improve for the better because He is already perfect and being perfect, cannot become less so—He needs no improvement. The perfection of Jesus means He was the perfect baby, perfect boy, perfect young man, perfect man: The perfect God-man. The phrase “No one is perfect!” doesn’t apply to Christ, the Perfect One to emulate as our role model in all things: the great Exemplar

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