The Atheistic misconception of Christian faithfulness…

Christians don’t seek goodness and obedience to our Lord because we fear Hell…we have a Savior that has defeated death, Hell and the grave for us. Christians seek morality, obedience, faithfulness, by the process of sanctification via the Holy Spirit because we know our Lord Jesus Christ, we love and adore Him and we know what He has done for us because of His great love for us; Jesus Christ left the splendor of Eternity some 2019-yrs ago and entered time in the flesh and suffered and died to pay our sin-debt, a debt we could not pay, so that we could live with Him forever. When one is willing to save my life by giving His own life in my place…the very least I can do is honor Him and respect Him.

Jesus said in John 10…

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Rickey D. Holtsclaw