Year: 2023

How does our current notion of perfection apply to how we interpret history and its manifestations, such as monuments, place names, institutional processes, among others? In Western societies, historical measures applied to how events, people, were assessed included biblical criteria — moral integrity, fealty to God and generally bettering one’s character. Today’s society is more…

Over the past few posts I have referred to “perfection” or “sin”. What does perfection mean? Should we measure “perfection” in terms of the “absence of mistakes?” While some actions can certainly be characterized as “mistakes,” often the determination is more subjective, in part because the benchmarks are fluid and fuzzy. The Bible acknowledges the…

The importance of breaking with the cycle of past sins is it opens the door to a transformation into something better. But should we forget the original sin? On the one hand, if we have clearly moved past the “sins of our fathers”, and broken the cycle, then there is no need to remember them;…

So if we are able to be tolerant of our own imperfections and those of others around us, what about the sins of “our fathers”; those sins exercised by past generations, such as the atrocities done in war, colonization, repression, slavery, etc.? “The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will…

Should we expect those people we have memorialized to be perfect? “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4) The Bible states that God is perfect, and given that He created men and women in…