(September 28, 2014 at 5:16 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(September 28, 2014 at 4:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: A is a Christian. Person B is an Atheist.
Person A and Person B have about the same good deeds and bad deeds.
Person A feels bad about their sins. Person B also feels bad about their sins. Both regret it.
Both however feel good about what they've done as good deeds, they being far more.
How does accepting the sacrifice of Christ make a person A feel less guilty that person B?
Dang OK I'll try again.
The perspective would be very different.
B is thinking in human terms. His interactivity is with his immediate reality.
A is thinking of Gods perspective as perfect love.
What matters to B is not the same as what matters to A. What one regards as good doesn't have the scope of the other.
Good doesn't even count for anything when done for personal reasons.
Accepting the sacrifice, A acknowledges the greater perspective. Denying the sacrifice, B keeps his perspective in check.
How'd I do?
You did well.
