Christian View Of Imperfection

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The Romans and the Greeks discovered the imperfections of human beings through their philosophers like Plato and Socrates. Plato observes that the human world we tend to observe with our senses is a sad and imperfect one, when Plato says humans are imperfect he means that humans are prone to make mistake, fail and see thing differently than others do. Plato also say this world of human imperfection is "a cheap knockoff" of the ultimate reality which plato has called ideal forms, these forms are represented by "Love, Beauty, Goodness, Art, or Justice, for we can only understand our world in relation to these forms it so imperfectly represents." This ultimate reality can be said to be a perfect world. The Christian view of imperfection can related to the imperfection of the soul in other to make it to the…show more content…
There are similarities the two view of human imperfection, when compared you can see the Romans/Greeks ended with the fact that there is a different world that our here were perfection exist which to them is the ultimate reality and the Christians also say there is a world in the afterlife where humans would be in this perfect world with God. Although the way to achieve this perfection from the Roman/Greek point of view is different from the Christian point of view. The Romans believe that certain ethics set aside by the rulers and philosophers have to be followed, also you have to understand these ethics and rules in other to live a good life these ethics don’t really include religious faith of the Christians which is where they differ because in other to achieve this perfection from the Christian perspective you have to follow their beliefs in the Christ and God and the commandment he has set aside to lead humans to

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