Perfectionism Rejected
No Sinless Perfection
Sanctification · 6 verses
Scripture uniformly rejects the notion of sinless perfection in this present life, recognizing that even the most sanctified believers retain vestiges of indwelling corruption until glorification. The doctrine of perfectionism contradicts both biblical testimony and Christian experience, fostering either self-deception regarding one's true spiritual state or despair at the impossibility of attaining such an unrealistic standard.
Scripture References
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.”
“If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;”
“I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”