It is unfortunate that unbiblical teachings related to perfection and sinlessness have repeatedly led to excesses and fanaticism down through history. Thus John Wesley, a man who spent his life teaching the possibility of perfection, referred to some perfectionists who “made the very name of Perfection stink in the nostrils.”3 Perverted theories of perfection have led to several aberrations among Christians. One perversion of the doctrine surrenders the clear distinction between the believer’s will