If we consider God's reality on character, and design, He designed us flawlessly. Now, obviously, from a worldly standpoint, it's hard to point to "flawless" people, and we can be quick to make judgments about what specifically makes people "flawed" and character "deficits" some people "struggle" with. Yet, I will make the claim and take the position that "Because God designed us flawlessly, humans are inherently flawless." This is the claim that I'm sticking with because how do you argue against it?
Well, there is one counterargument. People aren't perfect, are they? I mean consider the person who was resented for being alive by his dad. Was his dad perfect? Well, let me frame it this way. Was what his dad did, or the feelings he had felt about his son perfect? I would not be able to argue that they were healthy, and many might consider it borderline emotionally abusive. Nor were his dads' attitudes perfect. This is what transgression is by nature though, that even though the flawless and perfect character God designed is somewhere within the mountain of junk that led the dad to think this way, and therefore the man himself is flawless because the junk is not him. This is why design is so important, and more than likely is the rubric of which God will judge us, especially as Christians. "How well did you walk in your design?"
For as we consider this, let us take the Fear of the LORD to heart, and hope in the salvation that he has provided for us by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which has perfected us, and given us the ability to receive the grace that we need to walk in the flawlessness of our design. So, therefore, be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect.
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