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Explain Like I'm Five

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I grew up going to church but I'm not religious now and I never really understood this part.

Please, no answers along the lines of "aha, that's why Christianity is a sham" or "religions aren't logical". I don't want to debate whether it's right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You absolutely don't have to. But when you're a Christian, you love God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul; and you love your neighbor as yourself. The result is that you do good works by virtue of doing God's will. Good works are a result of salvation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a rosy colored and false view of the world and how christians act.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i think @10A generally does describe what I learned in my past growing up in a Christian household - although I'm not religious anymore. It's not about doing bad stuff and then being saved, but just doing good things as a result of believing in God and striving to be like Jesus and whatnot.

Now, whether people who claim to be Christians act in that way is another story - in my experience Christianity that I witness in the world today is very contradictory from whatever the Bible says lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a good ELI5 answer for the reformed protestant view.