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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? (self.explainlikeimfive)
submitted 1 year ago by minorninth to c/explainlikeimfive
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I grew up going to church but I'm not religious now and I never really understood this part.

Please, no answers along the lines of "aha, that's why Christianity is a sham" or "religions aren't logical". I don't want to debate whether it's right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a rosy colored and false view of the world and how christians act.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean "claim to be christians"? They are christians.

in my experience Christianity that I witness in the world today is very contradictory from whatever the Bible says lol

Bible tells you to stone adulterers and kill homosexuals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're confusing two covenants.