I've did some serious introspection during the last few months and years to see whether my thinking and reasoning has flaws. One thing I've noticed is that in my past life I did not always have the right reasons for doing something. It was like most of the time my motivation and reason for doing something stemmed from a feeling, but not from weightier reasons. For example, I may have said to myself I will go to church on Sunday to get my faith strengthened. But most of the time the decisive reason for which I went to church simply was fear of doing something wrong. In my past of unbelief I may have said to myself, I will go dancing to get to know other people, but maybe deep down I had the urge to go there to see girls in revealing clothing. I'm just not sure anymore how far I can trust myself. Maybe Freud is right when he presumes that most people's driving motivation is rather primal. But I do think that this is not universal but rather telling of the spiritual state of those who train themselves not to resist urges. I guess most of the time people have motivations and reasons which are in conflict, and depending on their sense of righteousness they either choose to do the right things or choose to do the wrong things.
I've come to the view that sin is something deeply unreasonable, all things considered ... and that the accusations of those who deem christianity an irrational religion, are wrong. If we were more reasonable, I mean reasonable deep down inside of us, through conviction, through devotion, through earnesty, we would not sin so much, we would discover and cling to the evident strong reasons not to sin.
I've come to the view that sin is something deeply unreasonable, all things considered ... and that the accusations of those who deem christianity an irrational religion, are wrong. If we were more reasonable, I mean reasonable deep down inside of us, through conviction, through devotion, through earnesty, we would not sin so much, we would discover and cling to the evident strong reasons not to sin.