[Sans-Culotte]

You chose to ignore all that...inexplicably.

It seemed that I ignored it because I did not respond to it. I did not respond because I failed to see the connection between being nice and God's grace. If, while spreading the gospel of niceness you are also spreading the gospel of man's sinful nature and the unmerited gift of God's grace, then I can see a connection.

But if Christianity merely looks like all other "being nice" belief systems, wouldn't a person say (as many do) "I'm basically a 'good' person. I've never stolen or raped or killed. Do I really need to be judged by some God?"

[americanophile]

"It seemed that I ignored it because I did not respond to it. I did not respond because I failed to see the connection between being nice and God's grace."

34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35

Jesus was apparently prepared to start here...and so am I.