u/ComradeYuki-Pye

Here’s a question that’s been on my mind recently: What would Paul have told the rich young ruler who had asked Jesus how to be saved? Of course Jesus answered him that by simply keeping the commandments he would inherit eternal life. But Paul was pretty explicit in his letters that it’s not enough to keep the commandments because a payment for your sins must be made, therefore one must also put their faith in Christ’s atoning death and resurrection. Is this a contradiction between Jesus’s and Paul’s soteriology?

When arguing for a moral position, do you has a Christian feel you need secular arguments for public justification or is it enough for you to say it’s God’s will? For example, take homosexuality. Does the supposed immorality of same-sex relations only have basis in what God commands or do you also feel you need non-religious reasons for it to be regarded as immoral?