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The Gospel of Perfection is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha.The text is mentioned in ancient anti-heretical works by the church fathers.It is thought to be a gnostic text of the Ophites, [1] and is believed by some to be the same as the Gospel of Eve, though the words of Saint Epiphanius implied that they were separate Gospels.
The Gospel of Eve is an almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be the same as the also lost Gospel of Perfection.. The only known content from it are a few quotations by Epiphanius (Panarion, 26), [1] a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act.
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Gospel of Perfection – 4th century, an Ophite poem that is only mentioned once by a single patristic source, Epiphanius, [8] and is referred to once in the 6th century Syriac Infancy Gospel Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians – also called Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
Gospel of Eve (a quotation from this gospel is given by Epiphanius (Haer. xxvi. 2, 3). It is possible that this is the Gospel of Perfection he alludes to in xxvi. 2. The quotation shows that this gospel was the expression of complete pantheism) Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms; Gospel of Matthias (probably different from the Gospel of Matthew)
In the Farewell Discourse Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples after his departure, depiction from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308–1311.. The roots of the doctrine of Christian perfection lie in the writings of some early Roman Catholic theologians considered Church Fathers: Irenaeus, [14] Clement of Alexandria, Origen and later Macarius of Egypt and Gregory of Nyssa.
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The pursuit of perfection is important, even if the attainment of it impossible. [6] Another view is that this is a limited form of perfection that is being asked. Fowler notes that elsewhere in the New Testament, it is stated that those who believe in Jesus and rely fully upon him for all things is perfect.