Beyond Salvation

Hebrews 6:1-2
(Significantly updated 2/17/2011)
Post 165

Following up the previous post, I would like to expand on a few concepts.
But before I do, I feel pressed to confirm that there is of course nothing more important than your eternal salvation… even more important than your successful birth into this present world.
It is the Christian belief that life begins at conception, and even if that life is snuffed out before the child is born into this world, the scriptures tend to indicate that God has made provision for their entry into eternal life. *1
But a person who faces eternity without salvation is utterly lost and in desperate need of salvation before they die, *2 which God has provided though the sacrifice of his Son Jesus the Christ, and by the power of his resurrection from the dead. *3
Whatever happens after this new birth (born into the family of God) is secondary when evaluated against the successful event of birth.
We see the spiritual concept of this as represented in the physical world;
After a child is born successfully, we then move on into feeding, potty training, education, discipline, etc. all in the process of raising the child to be all that he/she can be.
But none of these things matters if the child was never born.
It is not a matter of degree of importance; it just has no relevance at all.

In the same way, the only thing that my blog can offer the person who has not found salvation, is the knowledge that you need salvation. *4
This salvation the scriptures identify with being born again. *5
This is because we are born into the world of the flesh the first time,
And born into the Spirit of God the second time. *6

I am offering the idea, that just as life of the flesh begins before birth, so the Christian's life is conceived at salvation, and then lives the rest of his time in the flesh as the spiritual pre-natal stage, to be born into life eternal at the time of his death. However long that period is, it should be used to develop your spiritual health and viability for your eternal life.

Now once your child is born, and you bring it home from the hospital, do you prop it up in the Lazyboy and figure your work is done?
When your friends come by, and at one look and smell they say; “I think your child needs some serious attention!” Do you respond defensively with; “My child was born and that’s all that matters.”

Of course not!
So why are there so many Christians fully confident to declare; “I was saved by the blood of Jesus back in ‘86, and anything I do more than that would be works.”

This is confusion of doctrine.
Changing your baby’s diapers has little to do with his birth, other than a need that naturally arises because he was born.

Are you saved?
If not, Get saved. That is where you must start. Seek out your Maker and choose to give him your homage *7 as supreme authority in your life.

If you are saved, Great.
Now the new life begins!

* * *
I speak now to the all too common Christian who has been beguiled into lethargy, and in danger of entering eternity with spiritual Down Syndrome *8:

Beguiled; 1818 exapatao, from 1537 and 538; to seduce wholly.
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” II Corinthians 11:3-4

I use this verse here to show the extent to which beguilement can and actually will eventually go *9, but in this post I am addressing the beginning of this beguilement.
That beginning is forgetting the simplicity of Christ's message;
To save us from our sin.
When we forget this, we then begin focusing on "other things" (wicked heart's desire) and begin the casting off every useful work (obedience) that scripture guides us into after salvation. *10 Without the useful work or with the misapplication of it, our faith becomes dead,*11 and we are then primed to receive another gospel with perhaps even the same name. Today we call this effortless, works-less, purposeless, corruption of faith, the gospel of grace.
That dead gospel is where the majority of Christians camp today, in opposition to the Gospel of the scriptures, and they camp there because they have been beguiled to think the only alternative is salvation by works which the scriptures clearly stand against. *12

What a dilemma;
To work or not to work; How can they both be wrong?

So today, we find ourselves in confusion, doing exactly what the Jews do through works, camping on their law, and animal sacrifice when they mess up, all the while still missing the whole point.
But we through no works, camp on grace, and Jesus sacrifice when we mess up, but can't see how we too are missing the whole point.

What makes us think we will by pass their same fate, if we miss the same point?
I wish I could explain this.
Oh wait!
There is a whole book of scripture already conveniently written on this subject!
The entire book of Romans deals with this confusion:

“Thou wilt say then, The branches (Jews) were broken off, that I (Gentile) might be graffed in.
Well; (True;) because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.” Romans 11:19-22

This passage tells us exactly why the Jews were cut off; “because of unbelief”
And it tells us Gentiles where to watch for the similar fate; “in failing to continue in his goodness”

Are these the same thing?
No,
“Belief” is not works, it is just faith,
Whereas “continuing in goodness” is action; i.e. works.

“Now wait just a minute!
Is this saying what I think it is saying?”
The Jews were cut off because they lacked faith
But the Gentile is in danger of being cut off because we lack works?

That sounds like God got confused as to just who is obligated to what!

* * *
Isn’t that curious.

And God smiles as we suddenly realize we are all the same with the same obligation toward God, even if it presents with various appearances.

“For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.” Romans 10:12

We are, (both Jew and Gentile) supposed to do good works,
and we are, (both Jew and Gentile) supposed to believe in Him who is beyond the works.
And we are both in danger of being cut off for not figuring out the part that doesn’t seem to come naturally;
The Jews camp on their works (law) as instructed, but ignore belief,
The Gentiles camp on their faith (grace) as instructed, but ignore the doing.
And both are failing the whole point!

“What is the whole point?”
I’m getting to that.

* * *

So first the Jews failed.
Now it is the Gentiles turn.
But our turn is about over, because we are completing our failure too.
and soon God will turn his attention back onto the Jew, while the Gentile will be cut off.

As we cannot now see the clarity of this whole concept because of beguilement, the knowledge cannot reach our heart with wisdom that enables a properly changed life from the core. i.e. salvation of the soul. *13 Therefore we view the scripture from a comprehension of corruption while we try to make sense of it, very much as the Downs embryo tries to properly divide the cells of confusion; There is a foundational flaw in the very building instructions of life, which has been mysteriously added in.
There is nothing actually missing in the construction, it just isn't put together right.
The result is not perfection *14.

After we were given that much needed rout of redemption through the blood sacrifice of Jesus the Christ, we then abused that rout to ends never intended by calling this additional sin "covered by Grace".
So now, how can we recover from the corruption of that which was to enable us to recover from corruption?

Oh wait again!
There is another passage of scripture already written regarding this too!
Pretty much the whole book of Hebrews directly speaks to this topic. How can I not write here the entire book as evidence!?
But for space I will include only these highlights;
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,…” Hebrews 1:1-2
Meaning The One God spoke the same message to the OT people and the NT people using a variety of methods.

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” 2:1
If the message is the same through the ages, we should seriously take a look at all the elements of the message given so we don't casually forget them and miss the concept.

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;…” 2:3
This neglecting ( extra chromosome 21) is the result of the beguilement mentioned above, which leads to;

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”… 3:13

The danger shown here is the same danger the Jews fell to; “an evil heart of unbelief.”
And we see this unbelief comes through the “deceitfulness of sin”.

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What does that deceitfulness look like?
It looks like the very first beguiling temptation; “Go ahead, you will not die!” Genesis 3:4 (slightly paraphrased)

The serpent validated his statement with a reasonable, and mostly true argument to support his claim and Eve's desire. Genesis 3:5

Eve did not accidentally slip and fall onto the forbidden fruit with her mouth. (Grace covers that kind of sin, rare as it is likely to be. I John 2:1)
No, She chose to intentionally disobey.
But it wasn't out of malice toward God, she was beguiled into it by the serpent and the thoughts of her own lust; The desire of her heart. (James 1:14)
Yet it was willful none the less. (There is no grace for this kind. Hebrews 6:4-8) "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." Hebrews 10:26

Willful disobedience is that sin which cuts you off from God; whether you are in the garden of Eden, or covered with Jesus blood, or anywhere on the timeline between.
This is so utterly frightening in the magnitude of what it means:

"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;...for ye know how that afterward, when he (Esau) would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, thou he sought it carefully with tears." Hebrews 12:14-17
Who is Esau? The father of the Edomites, (Deut.2:4) Muslims today, as "the other" (grand)children of Abraham. (Genesis 25:23, Hebrews 11:20) He was actually the first born and the rightful heir of the promise that now belongs to Jacob. (Israel)
Now neither brother was all that righteous, but Esau failed of that grace, and because of his wicked heart he sold away his birthright for a morsel, yet all these thousands of years later his entire family line hates his brother with thoughts of murder for his own action of folly.
Esau had the first chance to be "The" children of Abraham, but it meant nothing to him at the time. Only later did he really want what was no longer his.
It was not the magnitude of his sin act that cost him so dearly, it was his entire mindframe that allowed him to give in to his momentary desire with no regard for anything else.
Think about that in your daily willful sins of small disobediences.

We gasp in disbelief that a young man would sell his birthright for a bowl of soup. So what is your Christian birthright worth to you? a blasphemous tongue? a quick roll in the hay?
By Eve's willful disobedience she was cast forever out of the Garden of God.
With this in mind, how valuable is the offer of your salvation now?

"Of how much more sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace?" Hebrews 10:29

This is the source of Christ's future Just treatment of his enemies through the law of an eye for an eye described here;
"I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." Isaiah 63:3
You tread on my blood, I tread on yours!

Who are these enemies toward which Jesus seems to have a greater vengeance than those who failed the law of Moses? clearly those who were given the blood of the covenant of Jesus Christ and abused it so casually!
And you thought God treated the Jews bad!

"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue (vomit) thee out of my mouth." Revelation 3:16

“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” Hebrews 4:1

Now if all this is terrifying you to the point of inaction, you are missing the heart of the writer.
This is supposed to be the kind of fear that says; "Wow that's bad! Lets make sure we don't fall into that category of those who seem to come short of that rest!"

Is it too late? Do you already seem to come short?
Note the careful wording of the verse. If you are a believer but have made a real mess of it thus far, there is still hope in this verse, because at this point you only SEEM to come short of his rest, meaning there is still time in this spiritual pre-natal stage, you can still find His rest if you recognize your error and change your present path! *15


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What is his rest?

It is the state of existence found after overcoming the deceitfulness of sin.
Not “a” sin, but the spirit of sin; the very concept of the deceitfulness that promotes sin.
Not once, but a successful life choice.
It is finding the Power to overcome sin... but More.
Overcoming sin is a contest, a battle. That is not rest.
But having overcome sin is a past event.
The rest then, is a place found after the battle against sin is successfully won... by understanding how to overcome sin!
(The labor until entry, is learning that understanding, not actually battling sin.)
We are never done battling sin until death, but once the overcoming understanding is acquired, there is rest even as we continually overcome sin because sin no longer has any power against us.
Am I tempted to fornicate? perhaps, but does that sin have claws in my heart to pull me into falling? No! because that battle is easily won as long as I remain in Christ's rest. How? Because I am trained in recognizing the deceitfulness of sin and not focused on the sin itself.
This goes for all battles against sin.
The labor is finding that rest in Christ.

"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not." I John 2:1a
This is a statement all its own. This sentence and thought is complete.
But for that occasional, accidental, result of confusion, caught off guard, wow-I-didn't-see-that-coming sin, the verse has an addendum;
"and if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
The first part of this verse speaks to willful sin, the second part to accidental sin.
The first part says; Don't do it. The second part says; Don't worry about it!

The knowledge of this is vital because there is an unlimited supply of grace to cover the second kind, and virtually nothing of grace to cover the first.

But here is the hard part;
YOU DON’T KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS FOUND THIS KIND OF REST!
So logically this passage cannot mean that.
Or so I thought as I struggled with this concept myself.

“Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” Hebrews 4:11
So it is unbelief which keeps us from finding that rest, as we stop trying to get there due to unbelief; i.e. the experiential conclusion; "It can't be done."

Today, all I see around me is the example of unbelief.
But this should be no surprise.
God cast off an entire people, an entire “age” if you will, for this example of unbelief, (saving the elect of them) and here in Hebrews we are warned about falling to the same thing.

Well, here we are.
In the last days,
Seeing an entire “age” fallen again to unbelief while still diligently practicing the faith!
Which is right on cue for the Last Days events prophesied.

"But where does that leave us?"
Hacking through the overgrowth on the long unused path to that rest, where few have gone in our lifetime!
Yet in great rejoicing, like Paul I can declare; I HAVE FOUND THAT REST! Follow me. I Corinthians 4:16-17

But how can you know I am not blowing smoke?
Lots of people make wild claims these days.
And you don’t know me.
Therefore my claim holds no water for you to drink.

So listen to these words of the scripture and believe them! Then be encouraged to go to God himself for the wisdom to seek that rest which the scripture tells you is there.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." Matthew 11:29-30

How light can a yoke be?
I know many Christians who don't want to call God a liar, but find his yoke mighty encumbering. I think you will find the reason is because a plow yoke does not look good with cocktail dress!
Some men's wives are a delight that lifts their very soul, while others are a chain around their neck. The difference is the heart's desire.
If you find Christ's yoke chafing your neck, it is because plowing with Jesus is not where you want to be. Even a feather is an irritant to be brushed off if you don't want it there!
I confess I found Christ's yoke plenty burdensome for far too many years as I had my head in the faith and my heart on the road while laboring to find that elusive rest.

"And having a high priest (Jesus) over the house of God;
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from and evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (of the word)
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews 10:21-25

Kinda has alot more punch now, don't it?

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Continued in the next post!


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*1 Below the Age of Accountability:
Regretfully I cannot seem to lay my hands on the passage, but will post this soon.

*2 Original State:
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;…” Romans 3:23a
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23
“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:18

*3 Provision of Salvation:
“…The word of faith which we preach;
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Romans 10:8b-9

*4 Preaching to Faith:
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” Romans 10:14

*5 Born Again:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3-4
Galatians 4:19 gives us a curious insight into the process leading up to the event;
"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,..." Paul, being the mother of their faith, is describing the travail, the labor experienced UNTIL Christ is created in them.
Using the physical example of pre-natal gestation, their spiritual embryo is struggling to form that viable life of Christ in them, enabling them to be "born" as viable Christians. Paul is describing spiritual contractions as they develop.

I Peter 1:22 shows elements that establish this viability; "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
Then continues in the next verse, most often interpreted to mean the birth that takes place at death; "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." But the tense of this concept is established in the several preceding verses; I Peter 1:13-21 "...Be sober and hope to the end for the grace..." v.13, "...that your faith and hope..."v.21
This preceding section indicates whatever we have been given is not yet finished.
So I became curious as the the tense of the word "born" as used in 1:23 and found that particular word "born" in this verse is unique to all the other places used.

Born 313 anagennao; from 303 and 1080; to beget or (by extension) bear (again).
303 fatness; i.e. (fertile).
1080 (Chaldean) corresponding to 1086 (but used only in a mental sense); to afflict.
This verse and use of the word born, is not referring to the event of the new spiritual birth "born again" but to the transformation process of reaching that goal.

Now the next chapter begins describing these "born again" as "newborn babes" 2:2
and then goes on to lay down conduct fitting.
But this is built upon the mental affliction of fatness created in them in the "birth" identified in 1:23.
So we see the concept actually fits the development of the pre-natal construction of the spiritual embrio as the "birth" of 1:23 can be shown to be the actual conception of a new Christian.
There is so much more, but I have to stop this post before it becomes a book of its own, and we have crossed the line into spiritual biochemistry which most people are really not interested in, nor need, so long as they remember the simplicity of Christ;
My brethern, do not sin.
"We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keeppeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." I John 5:18
yet I can't stop!
Begotten 1080 gennao; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother) figuratively to regenerate.
we have two points of the process here, not one; born and begotten. OK, enough.

*6 Two Births; flesh and spirit:
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.” John 3:5-6

*7 Homage:
1. A ceremony by which a man acknowledged himself the vassal of a lord; also, the relation between the lord and his vassal. 2. An act done or thing rendered as an acknowledgment of, or as part of the services required by, vassalage. 3. Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially respect paid by external action; obeisance. - Syn. See LOYALTY. - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 5th edition 1948

*8 Down Syndrome:
http://www.ndss.org/ - a very interesting and informative site.
The more I study Down Syndrome to check the accuracy of my comparative representation, I am surprised how accurate or equal the representation actually is.
Downs embryo cells do not fail to endeavor the processes of construction, they are simply using additional instruction (chromosome 21) than the design intended. I fully purpose to improve my understanding further.
But at this point, like the Downs embryo, today's average Christian attempts to add into the construction of their faith additional elements of "acceptable sin" which the design is not meant to include. The result is a corruption at the very foundation of the faith which brings to the entire regeneration a significant retardation.

Curiously, there are three ways which the additional chromosome 21 of Down Syndrome (information) is obtained; Most often from the mother, rarely from the father, or originating in the first division of the fertilized egg.
As we saw Paul representing the spiritual mother of these new Christians in Galatians, we can see that the doctrine of the preacher is how half of the information (spiritual DNA) is passed. God being the Father provides the other half of the spiritual DNA through the Spirit and the Word. Therefore if the preacher is a carrier of this genetic flaw, the spiritual offspring will bear this flaw in its own development, or occasionally for reasons not yet understood, develop the corruption of doctrine on its own regardless of the pure doctrine of the mother and father. I cannot offer any insight at this time into the origin of this genetic flaw as being from the Father.
(Remember I am speaking here as a spiritual biochemist in the early stages of discovery looking for the causes and cures of a common disease.)

* 9 Beguilement:
Would it surprise you to know that the religion of Islam is now watching for the arrival of the prophet Isa? The English translation of Isa is Jesus.
This prophet will be the actual Jesus this passage warns about.
He will be promoted (preached) by perhaps the Mahdi, (our Antichrist).
He will provide another spirit.
And preach another gospel (of Allah).
This passage has been a useful “idea” until now, but here in the end times, this passage is speaking plainly of specifics soon to come.

*10 Useful Works:
The scripture is utterly full of this concept as exampled in these passages;
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
“That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;” Colossians 1:10
“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work” II Timothy 2:21
“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” II Timothy 3:17
“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.” Titus 3:8
“And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:” Hebrews 10:24

*11 Dead Faith:
“They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.” Titus 1:16
“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, (salvation) let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of (dead) faith toward God,” Hebrews 6:1
“Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou has faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” James 2:17-18

*12 Salvation not by Works:
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we (Christian Jews) have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” Galatians 2:16
“But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith:” Galatians 3:11-12
and on and on. The scriptures are very clear on this point.

*13 Salvation of the Soul:
“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:39
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” James 1:21
“Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” James 5:20
“Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.” Ezekiel 18:27

*14 Perfect:
Strong's Concordance of the Bible:
Genesis 6:9 "Noah was a just man and perfect..." 8549,
I kings 8:61 "Let your heart therefore be perfect..." 8003
Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father... 5046 Philippians 3:15 "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect..."5046
Galatians 3:3 "are ye now made perfect in the flesh?" 2005

8549 (Hebrew) tamiym; from 8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth.
8003 (Hebrew) shalem; from 7999; complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly.
5046 (Greek) teleios; from 5056; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); completeness:- of full age, man, perfect.
2005 (Greek) epiteleo; from 1909 and 5055; to fulfill further (or completely), i.e. execute; by implication to terminate, undergo.

This word "Perfect" though used in scripture with slight variations, is not identifying something without any flaws.
It is identifying something as having properly reached maturity or completeness.
In the construction trade I have built many houses. Each of them is finished. But there is not one of them that after completion I have not wished I had done a few things differently. Yet in the intended use of scripture, I can say they are all complete and properly functioning as design intended. they are perfect.

*15 Additional Sin:
Abandon/reject the continual reproduction of the corruption of additional acceptable sin (extra chromosome 21)
There is sin covered by grace, and sin that is not, as I have adequately shown.
"If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." I John 5:16

In my comparison, excessive sin that is covered, is the additional chromosome 21 resulting in spiritual Down Syndrome, if it does not result first in the more probable natural pre-natal termination, just as is the case in this present world. http://www.uic.edu/classes/bms/bms655/lesson9.html
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Matthew 7:22-23 (see also Hebrews 6:4-6)
Iniquity = extra chromosome 21
Iniquity 458 anomia; from 459; illegality, i.e. violation of law or (generally) wickedness.

If this present world is so amazingly complex, why do we imagine the spiritual is so simple?
If you accept the possibility that this post is correct, and then read your scriptures (DNA of the faith) with this perspective, you will find nearly every verse has new and significant meaning that could not be seen or understood from the other perspective.
In otherwords, your spiritual being will be properly constructed.
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