Re: Sinning Chritian\'s moral code as \"irrational\" as an atheists code
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the Christian will, by assumption, be not be following the Absolute code they believe in but will be breaking some laws. How do they decide which ones to break: there is no absolute moral code on what moral laws can be broken.
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None can be broken. The price for sin is death according to Romans 6:23. As soon as you or I sin even once we are judged guilty of the entire law (James 2:10). As you have pointed out, everybody sins (breaks the moral law)...Christians, atheists, wiccans, etc. There are no provisions for choosing which laws to break and still be OK. That is the whole point of redemption as articulated in the Bible. God accomplished for us what we never could. He became a man (Jesus of Nazareth) and fulfilled all of the requirements of the law. He lived a perfect life. We put our faith in him and two things happen: 1) he takes our sin upon himself and it is nailed to the cross and defeated and 2) we are granted (clothed in) his perfect righteousness. So when God looks at us he does not see the sin (it has been killed on the cross) he sees his Son's perfect righteousness that covers us.
The absolute moral law still exists and its purpose is to demonstrate to us our sin and lead us to the Solution (Jesus Christ).
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