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Explain Like I'm Five

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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)

but if you do truly repent then you can be a dick all your life and still get to heaven.

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

But if you are truly repentant, you can't be a dick all your life. Those two things can't exist in the same space for long.

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

But if you are truly repentant, you can't be a dick all your life.

Why not?

You can be a dick to the gays and trans people, you can be a dick to the muslims and the athiests, you can even be a dick to the christians of other denominations. In fact you are commanded to be a dick to all of those people because you are commanded to preach to them and try and convert them.