The Meaning of Perfection (14:5)

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What does it mean to be perfect? How perfect must one be in this life? Suppose you saw someone who never swore, never gambled, never smoked, never drank, never stole anything, never lost his temper, never broke the Sabbath. Would you be looking at a perfect person? I hope not, because you could be in […]

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Mature is one way "perfection " is defined in Scripture; Maturity is explained as having the senses trained to discern good and evil (Heb. 5:14). Moving to chapter 9, the writer faults the ritual system as unable to make the worshippers perfect in conscience (9:9). He then explains that the  blood of Christ, unlike that of sacrificial animals, is able to cleanse the conscience (9:14). Hebrews 10:1-3 explains that the ritual system , had it been able to perfect the worshippers, would not have been often repeated; unfortunately, since it didn't actually cleanse the worshipper's conscience, it went on,  year by year. He is actually focusing on the Day of Atonement, defining the perfected conscience as one which has no recollection of sin i.e., the sins confessed throughout the year  will not confront the perfected conscience of the true believer, as did the sins of those participating in the ritual system did.  The Jews could not be certain of their salvation because they were confronted by their sin every year on the DoA. The Christian will not face his/her sin again,  because the blood of Christ has purged their conscience forever forever.

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Perfection is likely unachievable until we are baptized by the Spirit in the River of Life. Although the unpromising, hard-living hard-cussing fishermen disciples of Jesus were transformed into the greatest of men, perfection was still only a goal for them.

Perfection, we might mean, is the ability to no longer transgress the Laws of the Kingdom.