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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

So when Yeshua commanded us to be perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect did he really mean this?

Be ye therefore completed/finished
even as your Father in Heaven is completed/finished

More likely it has the meaning Peter gives to the same concept.

14: As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16: Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:14-16

It has to do with being like the Father.

But our being like the FATHER is accomplished by being made COMPLETE by him. It is the state of FULLNESS. It is the ALL in ALL.

To view it otherwise, would invite a person to be snared into thinking that seeks perfection as a reinvention of being righteous by the works of the law --the foolishness of the bewitched Galatians.