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Christian Ideals and the Reality of Sin

I like to look at situation and, no matter how rough, consider what would be ideal. I think that’s important.  In circles with friends or family I have convincingly argued for The Ideal and then stood there as someone asks “That’s awesome; how do we get there?” only to shake my head and respond “I [...]
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The Book of Romans Part7 (2:16-3:1) The Jews Treachery

We left off seeing the thought flow of this first major theme, namely that the grossest-sinner-and-unbeliever is in the same exact boat as the moral-and-upright-unbeliever. This category of moralist includes, of course, the Jew (as aforementioned). The Jew stood on the side of God judging the sins of the people around him, clamoring at the [...]
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The Book of Romans Part 6 (2:1-16) Being a Good Person

Although the person Paul is addressing has changed, the argument is still continuing underneath the same thought flow. The thought-flow being how God is found just, in this particular case, by the fact that He judges. God’s righteousness, it said in chapter one was seen in the fact that He judges all unrighteousness. In the [...]
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