I was just reading a theological article that I found at an interesting website. It's entitle Up With Legalism! The interesting question posed here was this:
"As a parent, what would I do if I were offered a choice between two (and only two) outcomes--(1) a daughter who, though an unwed mother, had come to thoroughly understand her own sinfulness and had thereby come to a true faith in the gospel; or (2) a daughter who was a self-righteous virgin, completely confident of her own inherent goodness and virtue? As a parent, which outcome would I prefer?"
Wow, what a question. One of the basic ideas of this article that I found extremely interesting, and a rather good point, is that the people that even bother to make the effort today to strive for "goodness", strive for a wordly goodness. We are more concerned with looking good and living a blameless life. Now, honestly, it is not wrong to want to live the best life possible, but to believe that one is able to do it on his own is outright foolish. Jack Crabtree, the author, makes to to say that the goal in itself is a truly upright cause, however it will be a humbling for one to realize he cannot make it on his own. This article makes a few good points, and those are the ones on which I am concentrating, however I encourage you to read it for yourself using the link I posted about. I found this question extremely interesting, a question I had never heard before, so I hope you all enjoy the prospect as much as I did. I think my own opinion is obvious. I am in agreeance with our author.
