If you've been hypothetically marooned somewhere in the Solipsistic Archipelago with a fundamental Christian sect, you will benefit greatly from being saved, either by outside agents or accepting Jesus as your representative savior.
Excuse the "in sin"-cerity. — Nils Loc
I don't believe I have done anything wrong — Posty McPostface
I don't believe I have done anything wrong; but, there's a man telling me I have committed sin and need to be saved. — Posty McPostface
The original sense of New Testament Greek ἁμαρτία hamartia "sin", is failure, being in error, missing the mark, especially in spear throwing;[3] Hebrew hata "sin" originates in archery and literally refers to missing the "gold" at the centre of a target, but hitting the target, i.e. error.[4] "To sin" has been defined from a Greek concordance as "to miss the mark".[5]
the need for salvation, for those who feel it, is paramount among human needs. The need for salvation depends on two simpler ideas:
a) There is a paramount end or aim of human life relative to which other aims are vain.
b) Man as he now is, or naturally is, is in danger of missing his highest aim, his highest good.
To hold that man needs salvation is to hold both of (a) and (b). I would put it like this. The religious person perceives our present life, or our natural life, as radically deficient, deficient from the root (radix) up, as fundamentally unsatisfactory; he feels it to be, not a mere condition, but a predicament; it strikes him as vain or empty if taken as an end in itself; he sees himself as homo viator, as a wayfarer or pilgrim treading a via dolorosa through a vale that cannot possibly be a final and fitting resting place; he senses or glimpses from time to time the possibility of a Higher Life; he feels himself in danger of missing out on this Higher Life of true happiness. If this doesn't strike a chord in you, then I suggest you do not have a religious disposition. Some people don't, and it cannot be helped. One cannot discuss religion with them, for it cannot be real to them.
The idea that "human beings" are a fallen species has a lot to recommend it. It accounts for a lot of bad things that happen. — Bitter Crank
Sorry for the sheer irrelevancy, but this made me laugh. Come North, Jake; if nothing else, Mt Washington awaits you!The winter hiking season is just underway here in north Florida, — Jake
The claim is one must accept the very God that will torture them for all eternity if they don't. — LD Saunders
So a good-willed politician is way more scary than a wicked, corrupt one. — DiegoT
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