I have a problem with God's standards if he accepts murderous pedophiles that believe in him, but rejects people who do good but do not.
The acknowledgement that God exist, or belief in God is not the same as having New Life in Christ. These are two totally different things, and this has been covered again and again and again within this thread.
One can acknowledge that God exist and still be just as lost as the most ardent atheist. That being said people who are alive in Christ are not murdering pedophiles.
A mudering pedophile is someone who is still living by his old, dead, Adamic, nature. Can someone who was once a murdering pedophile obtain a new nature through Christ, yes if they come to Christ with a repentant spirit and realize how horrible they really are, and wish to turn from that.
Now this also hits on things that we have already talked about within this thread. What is a sin? Many unbelievers within this thread have already made it clear that murder and rape is a part of human nature, and isn't really wrong, if in fact it is accepted within your culture. So we seem to have a double standard:
On one hand we damn God for saving someone who is the victim of his human nature, but on the other hand we say that there is no such thing as sin?
Does this make sense?
Throughout this thread we have heard the sentiment:
If there is a God then I am certainly in His good graces, becaues I am nice and good to the Earth. Then we hear there is no such thing as sin, followed by if God saves pedophiles then screw Him.
If there is a God then there is a standard of good and evil, and this standard is His, not ours. Again our standard of good in the West (based on Judeo-Christian values) is to treat others as we wish to be treated. However, in some ancient civilization or some stone age tribe in the jungle their standard of good may be totally different. So if there is a God then clearly the standard that should be followed is His, not ours, as ours is clearly up to interpretation.
It is quite clear that His standard is perfection, and that all mankind has missed that mark. If you have lied once, you missed the mark, if you have stolen once, you have missed the mark, etc. There is no one here who has lived a perfect life, because we are incapable of doing so. This is why we are given the opportunity, by God, to have His own life in place of our "human nature". This way we do not have to live in fear, or try to live perfect, or any of that, because Christ has done it all, and we reap the benefits by placing our trust in Him.
Again, this thread has demonstrated quite successfully the total lack of understanding of the Bible by people who are so convinced that its content has no bearing on their lives. Yes some of the folks here are quite familiar with religious stereotypes, superstitions, and even the practices of the religion of their family, pop culture, or even friends. However, actual familiarity with the Bible is severely lacking, and it is quite frankly a bit silly to have such strong convictions concering something that you know very little about.
