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ELI5: If you're a Christian, why do you have to be good if Jesus will forgive you no matter what?
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You absolutely don't have to. But when you're a Christian, you love God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul; and you love your neighbor as yourself. The result is that you do good works by virtue of doing God's will. Good works are a result of salvation.
What a rosy colored and false view of the world and how christians act.
i think @10A generally does describe what I learned in my past growing up in a Christian household - although I'm not religious anymore. It's not about doing bad stuff and then being saved, but just doing good things as a result of believing in God and striving to be like Jesus and whatnot.
Now, whether people who claim to be Christians act in that way is another story - in my experience Christianity that I witness in the world today is very contradictory from whatever the Bible says lol
What do you mean "claim to be christians"? They are christians.
Bible tells you to stone adulterers and kill homosexuals.
You're confusing two covenants.
This is a good ELI5 answer for the reformed protestant view.