Every human lives in the area bounded between “I am a good person.” and awareness that “All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.”
The difference between sanity and insanity is clear. The sane will say “I need to be a better person.” The less rational stare with wide-eyed sincerity as they mindlessly announce and repeat endlessly: “I am a good person.”
43,999 separate schisms have arisen on their founders’ fatal flaw: “I am so good a person that God will let those of whom I approve into Heaven.”
The founders of fanciful frauds continue: “If they follow my teaching and accept my beliefs act accordingly, and donate generously, I can guarantee they will save their souls.”
Everyone hears such things. Many listen. All of us have an urge to search for truth. Some allow that to be overwhelmed by the desire to have our own way.
“Hmmm.”, say the insecure, ignorant and those who want to justify some behavior frowned upon by The Church Jesus Founded, “Pastor Bob makes a lot of sense.”
Such are the minds of those who go into denominations praising every sort of deviance from The Only Church Jesus Founded. Their souls are corrupted by their vanity. That same vanity blinds their minds to its so thoroughly to its inevitable results they are not even able to quantify the justifying schism so attractive to them. Realizing that it is a newer group, in fact identified as “Schism #39,368”, may help them to realize, and escape its deadly and transient nature.
Most are unable to do even that simply analysis. Instead, the endless repetition. “I am a good person.”, the insane say as they stroll down the broad path to destruction, arm in arm with those who echo the refrain, “I am a good person.”
