Jesus said, "Be ye perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) Really? Would Jesus, who died of infinite forgiveness, tell people that they have to be "perfect"? This is one of the most tragic mistranslations of all time. The word in the Greek scripture is "teleos," which means "complete." It was an attempt to translate the Aramaic of Jesus's native language. In the Aramaic, this verse really says, "Ripen and be full. Let your personal fruitfulness embody the wholeness of the cosmos." We are not called to moral perfection, whatever that is. We are called to be ripe and juicy.
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