Re: Frightening Revelation

> >      Actually, Christianity (when taking the Bible as it's authority at
> > least) DOES presume man to be quite immoral and evil from the onset. There
> > much scriptural language that depicts the human condition in terms of
> > hopeless decrepitness. The "fear" of God, rather the fear of eternal
> > damnation, is intended as ONE means that is used to elicit a response of
> > humility and the seeking of salvation.
> I don't need an all-powerful entity to scare me into being moral; I already
> act on what's right... at least to the best of my abilities. In other words,
> I'm no angel, but I am a nice guy or so I'm told; that's just my basic
> personality. I'm not moral because I fear other entities, I'm moral for the
> sake of survival.

     Your position, might I say, is one held by many. In it's way, it does
account for a certain measure of the overall survival of mankind. Since this
is a philosophy area, I merly meant to point out the Biblical viewpoint that
our own inner morality is of itself lacking in the eyes of God.