that has no bearing on my question
i asked if you were perfect
if you want to follow the law, that is the requirement.
if you are not perfect, you are not following the law, and to say you are, you are doing lying to yourself, because you are not,
That has bearing on everything. Just as you see me missing "the point", I see in you. I am not burdened with "being perfect" something I, a sinner, can not be. But I can try. And if God died so that I could be forgiven when I mess up, I better keep trying or else what was it all for?
If I am not perfect? God knows I am not perfect. God knows in this flesh I will never be perfect. If I could be perfect He would not have come Himself and died. When I acknowledge to Him MY imperfection before Him, I also acknowledge His perfection. His Holiness, and my accepting of His Sacrifice, and my faith in His forgiveness, and as unworthy as I may be, my worthiness of that forgiveness.
I chose to follow ALL the words of Jesus, my Lord and Saviour. I am not wise enough to decided which words to follow and which words to not. I do not just walk in and with love, but also on the path that the commands given in the Word, keep my feet upon. I need His direction and guidance. I acknowledge my sinful flesh nature that I must crucify daily to be in obedience to Him. I discipline my mind and my heart to be more Christlike in all I do by staying in that Word, and out of the World. I try to, just as Christ did to the Father as he walked, follow the commands. If I do not know and follow His ways, I am just trying to do it my way.
It all comes back to Cain and Abel.
Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Genesis 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Cain did it his way. Abel did it Gods way.
So not only do I follow the command to Love God with all my heart and my neighbor as myself, I follow to the best of my ability all the ways that are acceptable to God. I know they are acceptable to God because "it is written". I believe in repentance and forgiveness by the blood of the Lamb. I am not lying to myself and telling myself I am perfect, quite the contrary. But I am showing and telling God that I believe His ways ARE, to me, and I would like to be. I am striving to be "perfect" in a world that will persecute me for that very thing. But that is ok because it is written this is how it would be.
As you know, I believe the "law" as in the law of Moses, was done away and Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John:
since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
I believe that in order to bring in a New Covenant that the first Covenant that was waxing old, decaying and ready to vanish, went away with the blood of Jesus on Cross, so that this period under Grace, the kingdom of God, would reign for all. I believe because the mystery that the kingdom would be offered to "all", meaning the gentiles also, a New Covenant covering "all" had to be put in place. I do not believe God would leave to us "to speculate" on our own what was and was not valid, just as I do not believe He leaves us to speculate on which commands are or are not to be followed in the New Covenant. I am living in the Masters house, I better follow the Masters rules for the House.
So what it comes down to is I believe if I break the law and I repent, that I will be forgiven. As such, I am required to try, yet unburdened by "the perfection" or "fear" of not being perfect in doing so.