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Monday, February 11, 2013

Holy: Understanding it Better Through Understanding Perfect Better

At times the biblical word for holy is defined by scholars and theologians by the word "perfect".  This is a word many people have come to avoid, if not to also hate.  They will recite perfectionism and the harm it did to them personally.  The way we define it in English, it is something unattainable.  But what if biblical perfection is something different from our definition and what if that can help us understand holy better?  So what I want to do in this post is to define perfect and also relate it to holy. 

Perfect means per-the-goal.  Perfection is relative or absolute depending on the goal attached to it in a particular context.  It is not always referring to a final goal.  It can refer to other goals along the way to a final goal. 

Perfect in this life 

Perfect in the next life 


Love and perfection

Perfect love 


Perfect is related to Hebrew words translated as whole. 



[This is still in process  ... please check other entries in the meantime. ] 

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