Being Perfect; Perfect Being

January 20, 2011 by James Faulconer

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On this understanding of becoming perfect, the question of to what degree I can become like Jesus in this life is moot. I must be fully what I am given to be through fervent prayer and, as Mormon's son Moroni later says, by denying myself all ungodliness (Moroni 10:32), which I take to be the same thing. I do not need to compare myself to others or to demand a yardstick for deciding how perfect I am. It is enough to submit and to love. In this life perfection, being like God, means being imbued with the love given by God, a love exemplified in the life of a Savior who willingly suffered unjustly, suffered that which he did not deserve, bearing our burdens, mourning with us, comforting us, and standing as a witness of the Father.

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About James Faulconer

James Faulconer is a Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, where he has taught philosophy since 1975.

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