“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”- Matthew 5:4
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Lack of mild realisticity in the Bible depicts God as being entirely perfect. He never sinned, although the Bible says that everyone is born inherent sinners. Jesus, his son, was also perfect. He forgave everyone, regardless of the severity of the offense they had committed. He was unbelievably noble, loving and compassionate.
There are many people that abide by the idea that they should model themselves after the perfect God that they have been taught to worship. Being told that you must put yourself on the same perfect pedestal as a omnipotent God creates a lot of unnecessary anxiety and self-doubt.
It has been said that religion is often born out of fear or a need for some form of closure: in most instances, this closure involves what happens after we die, or assurance that we will be rewarded for the good deeds performed while living. I believe, however, that in attempting to model yourself after a perfect God, a morose kind of closure is attained: people use this closure to hide from the fact that they are flawed, meaning that they never have to come to terms with the fact that they are not, and never will be, perfect. Ironically enough for many people, the driving force behind the inevitable failed attempts to attain perfection is a God that has been deemed emphatically superior to us in more ways than we can ever imagine...
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