I was talking to somebody the other day and I thought his perception about something of Christianity was misleading. People often say of Christ that he came for the weak. I think when people think of the weak they think of the poor, elderly, sick, etc., except I think this isn’t quite right. I wrote the following about this.
I meant to say something before, but I think you misunderstand what exactly “weak” is. Weak doesn’t literally mean the poor, the sick, the elderly, etc. There is a fundamental difference between Christianity and Islam. That is God’s judgement and his standard. For Muslims they think that God will balance out their good deeds and their bad deeds and if they did more good than they did bad then they are good people, almost like weighing on a scale. Christianity is different. God’s passing mark isn’t 20%, not 50%, not 99%, it’s 100%. Doesn’t make a difference whether you follow 50% of his commands or 99%, both are failing. Christians believe that Christ died on the cross to give us grace. God had to send his Son to redeem humanity in his eyes for God to do good for humanity. He wouldn’t be righteous if he encouraged wickedness. It was the death on the cross that brought us grace for our sins—grace is an undeserved favor from God. “Good” people have the delusion that they’re decent and upright people because they compare themselves to their neighbor, or they say something like “there’s many worse”. They think God will judge them by the standard of their neighbor. This is not the case. But they think it and it causes them to convince themselves of their own self-righteousness. “Good” and “successful” people are the least likely to accept God because they’re the most bound up in their own delusions of self-righteousness. Bad people know they’re no good, and consequently don’t have the same arrogance that “good” people do, so they’re more likely to accept God and be introduced into God’s kingdom. God knows that man can’t live up to his standard of righteousness, so the goal of a Christian life is not to measure good and bad deeds, but to earnestly seek both God and righteousness in simplicity with a pure heart. For such people God loves and will introduce into his kingdom.
