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I believe you can be a good person with morals. But to be good in the sight of God impossible for anyone. The Bible says are righteousness is as filthy rags in the sight of God. The only thing that makes us good is Salvation with His Mercy and Grace.
A non christian can do good, they can be used to by God to do good to others, but the real problem is that they can never make thierself good enough "for" God or good enough to save thierself. Since they have as all men do a evil nature and no matter how much good they do, they are still sinners who will have to be forgiven. So yes they do good, but they can never actually be good thierself.
Honestly, I don't care. I think religion is all interpretation and interpretation by men always leaves rooms for mistakes.
Me...I say do good in your own eyes. Do what makes you happy. Because the one absolute certainty in life is that you have to wake up to yourself everyday. Life has no guarentees except that one.
I will worry about the afterlife when I get there.
I think that is what "God" would want. I think he would be happy with you if you served yourself...after all you are as important as everyone else, why not take care of numero uno?
Can a non-Christian truly do good in the sight of God? Why or why not?
Actually, I beleive, "in the sight of God", we all are good as in his loving heart, we all are His Children.
It is not God who turn his back on us and labels us "bad", it is we, with choice, who turn from him.
And I am not preaching, as on a daily basis, knowingly or unknowingly I do something
more then likely outside His will, which is in away turning away from him.
I once thought that the motive behind the deed is what made it good or bad. If one was doing it for selfish reasons, it no longer made it good but rather just appeared to be good...even though it might be helping someone. The question is...what defines good? Is it good as long as it reaps an award by either the receiver or the giver? If thats the case, how are we actually rewarded? We are rewarded by God in Heaven... and if we are rewarded in Heaven, than how can a non-believer be rewarded?
I still believe that the motive behind what we do somewhat decides if it is good or not. Our motive is supposed to be that in everything we do, we are to do it for the glory and honor of God...to lift up His name, not anyone Elysees. If our motive is to please ourselves or anyone else but God, then can it be good in the eyes of the Lord?
You are very right, or I should say I agree with you very much in the fact that if you do a good deed out of love for our Lord, then yes, He is pleased....but....if you do something for "fan" recognition, or to hear..."Isn't Allheart wonderful"....then no, I would not think this is pleasing to God at all. And it also has the "ick" factor...
Our reward, yes, it to have eternal life with Our Father, and you ask a good question about those who do not believe, then no, what I am taught, they would not enter into the Kindgom of Heaven.
I also learned that we all will be given a chance to know him - and then it will be our choice whether to believe or not to beleive.
I once thought that the motive behind the deed is what made it good or bad.
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Is it good as long as it reaps an award by either the receiver or the giver? If thats the case, how are we actually rewarded? We are rewarded by God in Heaven... and if we are rewarded in Heaven, than how can a non-believer be rewarded?
You're right that goodness is a matter of cultivating worthy motives, informed by intelligence. It has nothing to do with awards or rewards, whether in heaven or on earth, nor does it depend on belief.
Why are you so keen to know God's view of the doings of non-Christians? Is it really any of your business?
Christians and non-christians can both do bad things, as well as good things. I beleive that someones religion or absence of, does not affect someone's ability to do morally wrong or right things. Christians can be murderers, christians can gamble, rape, prostitute, cheat and lie. SO can somebody who doesn't beleive in God. Being Christian doesn't make you better than anybody else, neither does being muslim or hindu or any other religion. Having a religion doesn't make you have some magical powers, which allow you to be perfect and never do anything wrong. We are all equal people, with individual feelings and personalities. If we are going to do bad things, it is not because we are Christian, it is because of our MORAL beliefs, not religious beliefs. How God sees us, well if you don't have a religion, God doesn't really exist does he? And if you do beleive in God, doing something good is a good thing weither or not a higher power observes it or not.
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