You won't find jmfcst and I in agreement very often. But on this, we do agree. At least to the degree that no human can every attain or perform or otherwise reach the perfect goodness of God.
Which is why, from a Christian worldview, God came to bear our imperfection in Jesus...and bridge the gap between broken humanity and perfect divinity.
Since we're well on our way towards this topic now, anyways, this is something that has always bugged me: what difference exactly is it supposed to make to believe that Jesus was the Son of God and all that? I've seen good and bad people who were allegedly "saved" and I've seen good and bad people who were not. As far as I can tell, whether or not one believes (or says he believes) doesn't exactly have much of a bearing on how one acts.
Probably one of the most distasteful parts of Christianity for me is the part that you hear over and over from people trying to convert others, which is that you get eternally tortured in hell if you don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God, etc.
"Whatever good deeds you do in his name, you do for me" - Rough paraphrase of Aslan in the last Narnia book.
I don't really buy into the idea that you have to believe in exact scripture in order to be saved, but then again I don't think one should take the Bible literally just like that.
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