Theistic Inclinations

[Harry Nevis]

I just wanted to be clear on your position.

I thought I was pretty clear and what I am saying has been orthodox teaching for 2000 years. No one deserves salvation based on their own merits. Salvation is entirely dependent on receiving forgiveness from Jesus Christ.

And forgiveness from doing things we can't help but do. Not to mention Original Sin.  So I'm supposed to worship an invisible dealer that has stacked the cards against me? Meh.

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But if God is "something else" that taught us the noble traits we hold like mercy and logic, then the sentence doesn't make any sense.
Many religions sought to picture God as a humanoid with super powers. 

Everything human about us, is learnt and derived from him. He taught us, a step by step. An eternal worth is more of a matter of a group believing that fact and thus prospered, and another group that chose another path and another source and thus perished.
Illusion vs Truth.

The concepts of "mercy" and "logic" don't mean what everyone accepts they mean when talking about religion.