(February 16, 2017 at 12:08 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: "Be perfect as I AM perfect."?So who was Jesus talking to? Better yet how was 'perfection obtained' in the sermon he just laid out in chapter 5. What principle or fundamental challenged encompasses perfection as He and God are "perfect?"
This lends to the question is perfection a state of being without flaw or is perfection something else? Asking, Does (At least in chapter 5)Perfection describe a state of love we are to strive to obtain? Rather than being with out error?
Everything leading up to your quote (verse 38 to 47) would seem to suggest that Jesus find or rather defines our perfection through the practice of loving one another. So then in your specific instance of 'quoted perfection' or being perfect as God is perfect, Jesus is not describing a state without error but a state where one's love is "complete" as Jesus' love was complete, and as the Father's love is complete.
