God and Human Wholeness: Perfection in Biblical and Theological Tradition (Biblia.com)

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The language of perfection crops up regularly in the Bible, from Noah ("a just man and perfect in his generations," KJV) to Jesus ("be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect," NRSV). Is flawless behavior what God expects, the only standard of righteousness that can satisfy him? Jewish tradition has long questioned this Christian assumption. Since Sanders and the New Perspective on...

the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good. Perfection is a mathematical or divine concept, goodness is a beautiful human concept that includes us all.277 Even if Gal 3:10 does not imply perfect law-keeping, the Pauline letters278 elsewhere use teleios eight times, often translated “perfect” in our English versions.279 What exactly did the apostle have in mind? Perhaps hidden somewhere among them is a new insight regarding perfection. Several passages in Paul’s Corinthian correspondence

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