I am Christ

[God_sent]

The CCC teaches this profound mystery…and I am aware on it’s implications for my life, but I seek to know the summit of my brothers/sisters understandig on this said matter. For be perfect as I AM perfect, are the words of our Lord. Has he then instructed us to be something which is not obtainable in this world? I think not, :juggle:

 

[James224]

The CCC teaches this profound mystery…and I am aware on it’s implications for my life, but I seek to know the summit of my brothers/sisters understandig on this said matter. For be perfect as I AM perfect, are the words of our Lord. Has he then instructed us to be something which is not obtainable in this world? I think not, :juggle:

I think what it means is that we are to seek Christian Perfection which is reaching a high level of holiness. We can never be as perfect as Christ.

 

[timotheos]

The CCC teaches this profound mystery…and I am aware on it’s implications for my life, but I seek to know the summit of my brothers/sisters understandig on this said matter. For be perfect as I AM perfect, are the words of our Lord. Has he then instructed us to be something which is not obtainable in this world? I think not, :juggle:

Your thread title is an attention-getter. I didn’t think Christ’s second coming would be on a Catholic Answers chat page (too obvious), but I had to check it just to be sure.

Here is my understanding. It is not about being something unattainable in the world. Christ’s perfection is in his perfect obedience to the Father. Complete abandonment of self, and complete embrace of God. Complete humility in following the Father’s will. In this way it is not we who live, but Christ who lives in us. In a sense, we actually become Christ in doing this. I don’t totally understand it, and I certainly do not live it yet, but my trials help me to understand it better than my periods of worldly peace.

So I should pray for more trials ( )