(March 17, 2016 at 10:33 am)drfuzzy Wrote: Can anyone make ANY sense out of that yammering stream-of-consciousness self-contradictory wall of text that I never should have bothered to read? So, Drippy, a Christian's "righteousness" has nothing to do with his actions? Really? Well, actually I can believe that. I have met a few preachers that obviously believed as you do: they raped children all week, then talked to their imaginary friend the ceiling, who told them everything was ok, and they were good to go out on Sunday morning and tell everybody in the pews that if they weren't good xtians they were gonna burn in hell forever. Riiight.
Not that I believe you're capable, but could you maybe distill that drivel above into one LOGICAL paragraph - in plain English?
I will break it down into sections. let me know which section you are having trouble understanding
1)God set an impossible standard. (the law) Jesus extended that standard to include thought.(mat 5) So now we have an impossible standard squared to earn righteousness (the right to goto heaven) by our works.
2)God knowing Heaven would be empty, then provided a way to obtain righteousness (the right to goto heaven) apart from following the law/Earning righteousness through our actions.
3) This alternative is call atonement. Atonement can not be earned by what we do, we must accept it on God's terms.
3a.)The only terms are to accept Christ who died to provide this atonement (respect the one who paid for this atonement, with his own blood.)
3b.) Repent or turn your heart from loving sin (not altogether stop sinning, but simply learn to hate it.)
3c.) forgive others and He has forgiven you.
4) which brings us back to the law. We need the law in it's completed form to simply identify sin, so we can repent of it.
4a.)All Morality justifies sin. or takes and hides the fact that sin is present in certain actions, so 'we' can believe that we are still 'good people' by the right of our actions/deeds, when in fact we are not.
4b) If we justify our sin, we will never repent of it. For instance if pop morality says Homosexuality is ok or if infanticide/abortion is ok, and in your mind you are still a 'good person' because you have lived with in the values of 'morality' then we/you will not ever repent/turn from our sin.
5)God knows we are all slaves to sin and will never stop sinning (Romans 6,7 and chapter8 detail all of this) which is again why He provided atonement.
6) God is forgiving of all sin, but will not abide Evil.
6a)Romans 1 and 2 define sin and evil.
6b) Evil is love for sin or the justification of sin. It has nothing to do with severity of sin before God. an Evil person before God could be a little old lady who loves and justifies her gossip. While we have little to no control over sin God wants us to turn from evil.
6c) Morality in all forms (Christian or pop) is the justification of sin, in essence All Morality is a form of evil or it protects societal accepted evil. Which again keeps us from repentance.
7) that is why we still have the law. Not to live by as a moral standard but to help us identify sin and keep us from evil.
Again I tried to break it all down just tell me which numbered section you are having trouble with.