PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION (A) PERFECTION(1) Some Essential Elements ofBenevolence Mat 19:21 Love Col 3:14 Good Works Jam 2:22 Control of the Tongue Jam 3:2 Obedience 1Jo 2:5; 1Jo 4:12 (2) The Duty of Striving after Gen 17:1; Deu 18:13; 1Ki 8:61; Mat 5:48; 2Co 13:11 Eph 4:13; Phi 3:15; Col 1:28; 2Ti 3:17; Heb 6:1; Heb 13:21 … Continue reading “PERFECTION-IMPERFECTION”
Perfection, Christian and Religious
Perfection, Christian and Religious A thing is perfect in which nothing is wanting of its nature, purpose, or end. It may be perfect in nature, yet imperfect inasmuch as it has not yet attained its end, whether this be in the same order as itself, or whether, by the will of God and His gratuitous … Continue reading “Perfection, Christian and Religious”
Perfection, Christian
perfection, Christian A term in Christian practise for a closer conformity to Gospel ideals than salvation demands. When the young man asked Our Lord what he should do to be saved, the answer was explicit: “Keep the commandments. If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast and give to the poor. And come … Continue reading “Perfection, Christian”
Perfection (of Jesus)
Perfection (of Jesus) PERFECTION (of Jesus).Christian writers generally take for granted the perfection of their Lord. They point to the records, and declare that such is the impression which they make on the honest reader. And that is not the mere begging of the question which it seems. Men judge of goodness by the eye. … Continue reading “Perfection (of Jesus)”
Perfection (Human)
Perfection (Human) PERFECTION (Human).Perfection is one of those terms which, however they may have been perverted to the purposes of fanaticism, are not only scriptural, but of too frequent occurrence in Scripture to be overlooked or passed by in silence (Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, xli. c.). In the Sermon on the Mount the second grand … Continue reading “Perfection (Human)”
Perfection
PERFECTION That state or quality of a thing, in which it is free from defect or redundancy. According to some, it is divided into physical or natural, whereby a thing has all its powers and faculties; moral, or an eminent degree of goodness and piety; and metaphysical or transcendant is the possession of all the … Continue reading “Perfection”
Perfecting
Perfecting 2Co 7:1 (a) This refers to the growth in grace and godliness of the child of GOD. He should halve the desire to be as near like CHRIST as it is possible for a redeemed sinner to be. Eph 4:12 (a) This indicates clearly that the believer is to grow in usefulness and fruitfulness. … Continue reading “Perfecting”
Perfectibility
Perfectibility The optimistic belief in the ability of man to attain an eventual complete realization of his moral possibilities. Opposed to the various philosophies and theologies of moral pessimism (e.g., the sinfulness and moral impotence of man, original sin, in Augustinianism, Lutheranism, Barthianism, et al.) — V.F. See Condorcet, Enlightenment. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Perfecti
Perfecti (Perfect) is the name assumed by the stricter Cathari (q.v.) of the 12th and 13th centuries. Rainerius, who had himself been a Catharist, and who speaks of a census of the sect taken by themselves, says that there were only 4000 of these, although the Credentes, or general body of the Catharists, were innumerable. … Continue reading “Perfecti”
Perfect, The
Perfect, The an appellation frequently applied in the early Christian Church to those who had been baptized, and thereby been admitted to the full privileges of Christians, having a right to partake of the Lord’s Supper. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature