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<blockquote data-quote="linux.poet" data-source="post: 77590233" data-attributes="member: 443852"><p>Part of Christian teachings is that we are inherently fallen sinners who cannot reach the ideal of Christ’s words and actions without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit is obtained by believing in Christ’s sacrifice as payment for my sins. To sin is miss the mark of the ideal - that is the ideal of Christ’s perfect, holy, sinless life. But that is a bit of an oversimplification because there was this thing called the Law which exposed the fact that human beings fall far short of God’s holiness and Christ’s sinless perfection. </p><p></p><p>Ironically, it is also a teaching of Christ that no human being can live up to His ideal without being “born again”, i.e. believing in Christ’s death and resurrection and submitting themselves to Christ’s authority. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That includes you. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Therefore, a Christian is NOT someone who perfectly lives up to Christ’s ideal, for that is impossible. It is someone who tries, who submits themselves to Christ’s rightful authority and who believes in the power of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection to cover their inadequacies and pay for their remaining failures. However, a practicing Christian still tries to avoid sin as much as possible, for to do otherwise is to act in contempt of Christ’s gruesome death. This cannot be done in ignorance or by accident, for the power of sin is too great. One must come to a saving knowledge of the truth to accept the Gospel. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Therefore, Christianity is incompatible with Ignosticism and you are not a Christian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linux.poet, post: 77590233, member: 443852"] Part of Christian teachings is that we are inherently fallen sinners who cannot reach the ideal of Christ’s words and actions without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit is obtained by believing in Christ’s sacrifice as payment for my sins. To sin is miss the mark of the ideal - that is the ideal of Christ’s perfect, holy, sinless life. But that is a bit of an oversimplification because there was this thing called the Law which exposed the fact that human beings fall far short of God’s holiness and Christ’s sinless perfection. Ironically, it is also a teaching of Christ that no human being can live up to His ideal without being “born again”, i.e. believing in Christ’s death and resurrection and submitting themselves to Christ’s authority. That includes you. Therefore, a Christian is NOT someone who perfectly lives up to Christ’s ideal, for that is impossible. It is someone who tries, who submits themselves to Christ’s rightful authority and who believes in the power of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection to cover their inadequacies and pay for their remaining failures. However, a practicing Christian still tries to avoid sin as much as possible, for to do otherwise is to act in contempt of Christ’s gruesome death. This cannot be done in ignorance or by accident, for the power of sin is too great. One must come to a saving knowledge of the truth to accept the Gospel. Therefore, Christianity is incompatible with Ignosticism and you are not a Christian. [/QUOTE]
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