Destroy Your Enemies

This was supposed to be a post about how we treat each other, including our enemies. So read this first....

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. - Jesus

So the point is made, but look again at that last sentence

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Is the suggestion here that we can actually be perfect? I don't think that's possible.

Jesus commands us to do the impossible? or is it possible? How? What do you think?

It sure does seem odd, doesn't it?