The Bible On Trial

Progress~

America, and indeed the world, is having a crisis of perfection. We see this crisis manifested in riots and protests that have caused death, destruction, mayhem, and anarchy, because a small faction of 'citizens' have declared that since their countries are not perfect that we must 'burn it all down' and start over in order to achieve equality of result for everyone. What these people are really saying is that must adhere to their idea of perfecton of they will destroy society and remake it in their image.

And on the other side of this argument, and to a lesser degree, we have all heard that even though perfection is an admirable goal "no one can ever be perfect" so we really should not even try to achieve it. It seems that seeking perfection in any endeavor is moot and counter productive because perfection in this world is unattainable.

Is perfection in the physical world is really not possible? Is so, then how was America able to send astronauts to the moon and bring them back? Do your really want to be operated on by a surgeon that is just 'good enough'? 

Perfection is an image of reality in the physical world, and it is not possible for humanity to every reach perfection, because entropy plays a big role in how everything turns out. Yet humaity does remarkable things, like going to the moon and back with engineering that is 'just good enough'.

Even in the spiritual realm perfection seems impossible. The Faithful and Sensible Bondservant of Matt. 24:42 is named by Jesus as "good enough" to accomplish his assigned task of "feeding His fellow servants their food at the proper time." 

Spiritual perfection must be the goal because Jesus said that we must be perfect in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet this perfection is a process through which we learn to become righteous in fact in keeping the Covenant.