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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I think that the Christian belief that humanity is inherently sinful and incapable of moral progress without God is an archaic but ultimately inspired version of post-modernism's disbelief in narratives and moral objectivity that differs mainly in that it posits an outside authority to give us a guide that post-modernism doesn't believe in.
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my undersranding of it is more that God's standards are so uncompromising that it's impossible for a human to live up to them because we have free will.
Thus humans need to be washed in the blood of Christ (who was a perfect person and thus the ultimate sacrificial victim) to redeem us of our sins.
I think the entire notion of moral progress is antithetical to the biblical narrative. There is God's perfect moral standard and then there is the flawed and inevitable human deviations from that standard.