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Originally Posted by beforHim
A high school student I was substituting yesterday said something like "I take all the good things from each religion. name a religion". A girl named Islam, and he admitted he didn't know much about Islam, then the bell rang.
Could we please dicuss why this view, "pot luck religion"- choose the good, leave out the bad (or in essence, choose what you want), is not the way to go about it. Thx a ton!
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Because who defines good? You see, if YOU are going to pick what YOU see as good, YOU are defining what good is and YOU have now made yourself God.
It is true--many religions may, by works, practice various things that are good. However, unless you are perfect... who are you to determine what good is and is not?
If you simply pick and choose what you see as, or feel as good... you will inevitibly arrive at a mirror of yourself (your own opinions)--
not what is actually good.
Edit: And of course, we as Christians know that it is not be works anyhow. It is by God's grace.
Picking and doing what you see as good is nothing but a works based relgion, working to earn favor.