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The other day I heard someone remark after being wronged, “That’s ok, nobody’s perfect.” Fair enough statement. I haven’t met any perfect people either. Or have I?
How do we know that no one is perfect? Would we recognize a perfect person if we met him? What would that person look like? What kind of morality would they exhibit? How would they act?
Forget the obvious, “Well, Jesus is perfect.” That’s not what I’m trying to get at. There seems to be something within all of us that states, “The way this person is acting shows me that he/she is not perfect. This is not the way it’s supposed to be. There’s a higher standard that this person does not meet.” The bible states that God’s law is written on our hearts, and that’s where I think this statement of “Nobody’s perfect” really shows this to be true. If God’s law is written on our hearts, then whether we acknowledge it our not, we’re going to be looking at things through God’s morality, regardless of whether or not we conform to that morality.
So if this perfect person exists, does it also mean that this person meets everyone’s standard of perfection? After all, if I say, “This person is perfect” and another says “This person is not perfect,” one of us has to be wrong. A person can’t be both perfect and not-perfect at the same time (the law of non-contradiction). It also then means that anyone else displaying traits that aren’t inline with that person isn’t perfect.
And thus, the crux of the issue. If a person is to say that “Jesus is perfect,” he has now made a exclusive truth claim. That person is saying, “Jesus Christ is the ultimate display of morality and character. Everyone else falls short.”
And that’s what we don’t like to hear. We’re pretty comfortable with everyone not being perfect. We’re used to that. But to accept that Christ is the bar by which all other moralities are judged rubs us the wrong way. We like to think that everyone is a good person. We like to think “to each their own.” We shy away from from exclusive truth. But if we know that “Nobody’s perfect” that means that there must be a morality out there that does represent that perfection. It’s just a matter of finding it.
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