(September 5, 2013 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: So, why don't we follow it as Christians? Because Christians do not derive righteousness before God (morality is the word most of you use/God will not find you moral) in following the Law. Because Paul and Christ agree that if you break the slightest command you are guilty of breaking all of the Law. so therefore one must seek a righteousness Greater than the righteousness/morality that comes from trying to obey the Law.
That is what attonement it. When one accepts the gift of attonement one puts on the righteousness (morality) of Christ. And before God, (concerning sin) we stand as pure as Christ stands pure.
This implies that a person may deliberately lead a sinful life and as long as he accepts the atonement offered by Christ, he stands before god purified. Is that what you mean to say?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
