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Originally Posted by mickja1
The answer to our sinfulness is outside ourselves. It doesn't revolve around us being good and following rules, but in throwing ourselves at the feet of someone who has the authority and the gumption to forgive our sins past, present, and future.
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The more I think about this, the more I realize I'm not familiar with any religion that operates this way. Christianity still requires you to "be good" and to follow the rules, just as does Islam as well as the slew of other major religions. Unless you subscribe to the "I'm going to profusely apologize on my death bed" ideal, my understanding is that it isn't as simple as this.
Some branches of Christianity even require you to be active in the word of god, to convert others, to even punish others so that you may be without sin. Many sects of Islam require its followers to not remain idle. These people still consider their answer to sin to be outside themselves, they just happen to see the answer in the "saving" of others. Preaching, beating, genocide. Saving others, acting out god's wishes, religious cleansing. All the same, really, to the people that do it.