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If people live their entire lives in the name of Christ but behave in a way that only marginally misses righteousness in the eyes of God, they may as well have raped and murdered their whole lives because they are meeting the same fate.

"that Christians are to emulate Jesus."

That is what I meant when I said "righteous in the eyes of God"

You don't understand. A Christian who fails to acheive perfect righteousness is not condemed to hell, which is what would happen to an unrepentent murderer/rapist. So your statement above is not true. The Christian is not "meeting the same fate." Depending on their particular flavor, Christians believe either that Christ's righteousness is accounted as the Christian's at the time of judgment (Protestant) or that Christ's righteousness actually makes the Christian righteous through sacraments and good deeds (Catholic).

A Christian who fails to acheive perfect righteousness is not condemed to hell, which is what would happen to an unrepentent ~~murderer/rapist~~.

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