(June 14, 2016 at 3:19 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Drich, if a person lives their life morally, helps his loved ones, doesn't hurt anyone, supports charity, and does good works...but they don't accept or love or worship Jesus/God... are they still considered 'diseased' with sin?
Again the whole point to the disease analogy is to illustrate that 'morality' is NOT even a consideration when evaluating sin. You are comparing apples and oranges.
IF one is infected with the Zombie virus and is a person lives their life morally, helps his loved ones, doesn't hurt anyone, supports charity, and does good works... Does it have anything to do with whether or not they carry the virus or not?
Sin is a virus apart from morality/good works.
Our works are simply symptoms of said sin... In the analogy this would be the difference between an a-symptomatic patient and one presenting symptoms.
In other words yes, some who are infected with sin do bad deeds. while others are simply carriers of the virus.
So then the question becomes do you allow the infect to co-mingle with the vaccinated/recovering just because they are not currently symptomatic just because they are 'good people?'
The answer is no. The infected are quarantined period no matter what type of person they think they are. why? because the qualifier here has absolutely nothing to do with you being a good person. You are confusing Greek and Egyptian mythology with Christianity. Works of any kind do not merit Heaven/afterlife. It all comes down to whether or not you have had your 'shots' or not.
