The Source of Goodness

Christianity is essentially a love triangle; God, I and neighbour. God does not separate love from principles. If you love God, you will keep his principles. The main reason we do not practice Christianity well is because we fail to understand Christianity well. The heart cannot resist full knowledge of the Truth. It is impossibility. If we have full understanding and knowledge of the truth we will live perfectly. Our minds, will and heart cannot act any other way when faced with this truth. We fail to understand that Christianity is not about acting good, but becoming a new person, a new being a new creation. We are to become Christ not imitate or act like Christ.  The secularised view of goodness as being in man is very different from Christianity’s view of goodness as becoming Christ himself in his life and his love. How can this be? It is ridiculous? All goodness comes from God. Man does not create goodness. It has to have a source. That source is God. That source is God even if some men are not aware of God or the source of goodness. All men are aware there are parameters, limits and rules to behaviour. Even pagan thinkers acknowledge there are rules and laws to conduct and behaviour. There are behaviours that are not permissible. Christians and non Christians recognise this fact. People who do not believe in a God, Communist states that do not believe in a god, recognise that there are binding laws on behaviour. All men recognise self-evident, external, natural, observable, unarguable, binding laws. This is how goodness operates in reality. Follow the binding principles and there is goodness. Break the rules and there are consequences. There are consequences because these rules are binding. We cannot really break the laws only we break ourselves against the laws. Without knowledge of God we still recognise there are rules, real rules and principles to conduct. These are real and objective and binding not man made. If they were man made they are changeable by man, therefore not binding at all. These binding laws are made by an unchangeable authority God. The moral rules for behaviour originate in God. Goodness originates in God. Goodness, in men that believe in God and who don’t know or believe in God, comes solely from God.