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Christians living as Jesus taught. And unity of belief amongst Christians.
Was there something in the tradition in which you were part of that led you to believe that Christians are anything other than fallible sinners like everyone else?
I'm not being snarky, or at least that's not my intent. It's a sincere question, because I know that some traditions do teach something like that (or, at the very least, that seems to be the implication).
I have no misgivings about who and what I am as a human being, I'm pretty broken, I don't have all the answers (maybe not even many answers), I'm a sinner, I frequently fail to do what I believe I should do. So, I'm definitely a hypocrite. I try not to present myself as anything I'm not, but rather would prefer to be open about my shortcomings.
But further, I've never seen any reason to believe that the integrity of the Christian Gospel rests upon the moral impeccability of those who believe it.
I don't just see this in regard to my own religion. I don't make similar judgments against Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, et al. There is always going to be a disparity between persons and the teachings of their religion. I wouldn't expect that a Jewish person is, because they are a Jew, always going to perfectly observe their own religion's moral framework, likewise with Muslims, likewise with Hindus (and so on and so forth).
As such, I suppose I don't understand why religious people--of any variety--being imperfect, being faulty, fallible, and well, human, would be detrimental or an inherent argument against the validity of a religious tradition. Divisions among religious traditions, as well as the flawed ways religious persons observe their religion, all seems indicative of the fact that people are flawed, not that the particular religious claims of the religion are wrong.
All this just to say that I fail to understand how these things are evidence or counter-evidence to whether [a] g/God exists; or to the veracity of any particular religion (or any religion).
-CryptoLutheran
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