(August 6, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Cato Wrote:(August 6, 2015 at 4:27 pm)Drich Wrote: This other way is atonement.
This is the most significant reason why the Christian system of morality is corrupt, and I'm being kind. According to your view of things I can treat the rest of humanity terribly along the way, but go to heaven as long as I make a sincere deathbed conversion with requisite atonement.
I had better moral sense when I was in kindergarten.
You could... But then you would not have the required love needed to accept the atonement offered. It's a bit of a catch 22.
We are not judged on 'morality/deeds' but on whether or not we have had our sins atoned for. But, at the same time According to Christ's condensation of the Law if we don't have Love for God and for our fellow Man then we can not accept the atonement offered. This is illustrated by Christ himself in several different parables, and even in the Lord's prayer.
It is atonement that makes us worthy before God, but at the same time if we do not Love God with all of our being and our neighbor as our self atonement is not offered.
