[Khadra]

Originally Posted by Acheron

You're missing one very important point: Christianity isn't about morals, it's about obedience. Throughout the Bible it is stated time and time again that all sins are equally bad as they are all transgressions against God's will. The upshot of this is that there is no means for telling the difference between a moral and an immoral action other than whether God says it is moral or immoral: if we have no criteria for ranking the sinfulness of an act, how else can we decide what is and what isn't a sin? The "good non-believer" is therefore an oxymoron: the only concept of "good" in Christianity is obedience to God, which naturally includes believing in God's existence.

Ah! You're right, I was missing that. I wonder how many Christians are also missing that too though. Funny how obvious it seems now, yet I've never heard it spelt out like that before. Well, I hope heaven is worth being a sheep for. I personally like being able to think for myself though.