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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
Agreed, sir.
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You're exempt cause there's not much to you to understand.
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Originally Posted by jwb
my undersranding of it is more that God's standards are so uncompromising that it's impossible for a human to live up to them because we have free will.
Thus humans need to be washed in the blood of Christ (who was a perfect person and thus the ultimate sacrificial victim) to redeem us of our sins.
I think the entire notion of moral progress is antithetical to the biblical narrative. There is God's perfect moral standard and then there is the flawed and inevitable human deviations from that standard.
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Each sect is going to be different but my understanding is that without praying you won't know god's will and your instinct will be to sin. But I was talking more about the origin of the idea itself rather than how it's been interpreted over the millennia.