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I do not seek to earn any status either. Seeking status is simply pride. I seek to improve myself ethically as much as is possible, and I have no doubt that the ultimate source of such improvement is infinitely larger than I am.
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Well then, are morals an individual choice or are they given to us by the Holy Spirit? |
As I wrote before, I don't see the choice as separate from God (i.e. "the Word was God").
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And I still don't see Jesus' function in your descriptions.
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I am a sinner. Jesus, being God, suffered and died to atone for my sins. The choice I must make is to accept that forgiveness by following His teachings.
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....... I think that good and evil are interdependent and that, while we must always seek to do good, evil will occur nonetheless.
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If you believe that evil was tagged for defeat at Christ's resurrection, then good and evil aren't "interdependent." |
Evil as a principle defeats itself, but yes, we have made good and evil interdependent through our free will. I also don't look for a specific time when all will be judged, because I do not believe that God is dependent on time. We will all be judged, though, quite literally by our own actions.
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That would mean that evil exists in the Kingdom of God.
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In the sense that the entire universe (the infinite) is the Kingdom of God, evil does exist in it because of our free will, something that will never disappear. It is called hell.