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Hmm. The only thing you've listed is what would benefit you. Is that what Christianity is about? Obey the law so you can grab as much for yourself as possible?
well when I was initially saved, yes it was selfishness, all about how I would be blessed to escape Hell. It was fire insurance. But that is typically how salvation does occur in most. So I was not alone in this. Eventually as I had assurance of salvation, I realized God loved me and would not take salvation away, I started to fall back into sin. Then later as I returned to scripture 15 years later. I started to fall in love with God anew and afresh. And now instead of praying for material Gain I pray for the father, instead of a healing I pray for the healer, instead of praying for restoration I pray for the restorer Himself. I don't want stuff anymore, I want Him. But it has been a long process. With any relationship the more time and effort you invest the more intimate it becomes. Oh how patient God must be to love freely and have a shallow materialistic love in return. I couldn't do that, that would be too painful .
Of course heavenly rewards will only benefit those who make it to heaven. So what reason do unbelievers have to obey your law? Is your god going to bless them as well for obeying?
Holiness is simply being wise. Godly fear is the beginning of such wisdom. However the seeds we plant of Godly wisdom in the world, even for the unbeliever, they can glean of those principles. They may not be able to have the eternal reward. But as they heed the principles, they are drawn to WHY we have the wisdom. As they reject the principles their heart grows harder toward the Lord. It says in exodus, pharoah hardened his heart. After awhile of hardening our heart, God then grants us our wish, and hardens our heart more. After turning the water of the nile to blood, I would have repented right away, but satan counterfeited the miracle in a minor way and pharoahs magicians turned water to blood in a very small manner. This was all the excuse pharaoh needed to harden His heart toward the miracle. And his nation was destroyed from a world ruling empire, to having absolutely no military. The egyptians even though they were unsaved, realized with common sense that the hebrew God was real and was with them, so they had favor with them and gave them supplies, gold, silver for their journey. So yes the unsaved can be moral, and the more moral they will be the better off. The only problem is they are addicted irrevocably to sin. Without Christ their is not overcomming the power of sin. So their efforts will be shallow. But hypothetically speaking if an athiest performed the works of a christian he would be blessed as per the law of the universe. But the enemy has already blinded them to feel morality is restricting and repressive. So why would they do it?
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