thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-12, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
Sydney,
The assumptions in your statements to Joshua are "humans are not good enough" and "humans can't become good enough on their own."
I've got a question for you about this. Christianity is predicated on this sort of attitude; that is, that humans are inherently evil or bad. There's a secondary thing I saw in an earlier post of yours where the world is also considered evil or bad.
As someone who thinks that humans are inherently good (and I mean that - good at nature and at heart, beings that will choose the moral action if given the chance to) and that the world is beautiful and wonderful, how can I accept Christianity? How can I resolve the two, or can I not?
Like Joshua, I don't want to be a better person, not in the way you mean. I want to be a better human, and that just involves trying each day.
